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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.4md

128 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

· 51 km deep · released about 2.2 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.4 (md)
Depth
51 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loíza Municipio, 142 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 537 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 2.2 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 78,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,500× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,500× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 2.2 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4.6× more

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 19.4792, -65.1532. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loíza Municipio, PR 142 km (88 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 152 km (94 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Juan Municipio
Cataño Municipio, PR 156 km (97 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Cataño Municipio
Toa Baja Municipio, PR 158 km (98 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Toa Baja Municipio
Dorado Municipio, PR 161 km (100 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Dorado Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.6 96 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.6 99 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.5 119 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.6 90 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.7 139 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.8 138 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 3.4 131 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.5 98 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 4.0 135 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.2 92 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 3.4 108 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 3.5 100 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  13. 3.6 89 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 3.1 89 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 3.4 140 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico

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 4.9 on 2018-11-14 — it released about 150 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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