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M 2.8md

33 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

· 20 km deep · released about 530 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Culebra Municipio 43 kmFajardo Municipio 63 kmVieques Municipio 69 kmCeiba Municipio 74 kmLuquillo Municipio 76 kmRío Grande Municipio 84 kmNaguabo Municipio 86 kmCanóvanas Municipio 95 kmHumacao Municipio 95 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (md)
Depth
20 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Culebra Municipio, 43 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 746 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 530 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 29,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 20,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 530 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 18.6215, -65.0405. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culebra Municipio, PR 43 km (27 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR 63 km (39 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Vieques Municipio, PR 69 km (43 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Vieques Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 74 km (46 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 76 km (47 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 84 km (52 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

42 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 3.5 59 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 3.9 52 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.5 74 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 3.2 72 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 4.0 66 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 3.6 71 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 3.4 60 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.7 51 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 2.9 53 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.0 37 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.4 58 km NNE of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.2 67 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.7 75 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 3.5 69 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 3.1 44 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.8 on 2021-03-09 — it released about 900 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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