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M 3.4md

83 km SW of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

· 27 km deep · released about 1.8 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Vieques Municipio 105 kmMaunabo Municipio 110 kmYabucoa Municipio 114 kmPatillas Municipio 116 kmHumacao Municipio 117 kmArroyo Municipio 117 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 3.4 (md)
Depth
27 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Vieques Municipio, 105 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 345 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 1.8 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 95,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,300× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 3,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.8 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 3.7× 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 17.1910, -65.2970. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Vieques Municipio, PR 105 km (65 mi) S of here earthquakes near Vieques Municipio
Maunabo Municipio, PR 110 km (68 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Maunabo Municipio
Yabucoa Municipio, PR 114 km (71 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Yabucoa Municipio
Patillas Municipio, PR 116 km (72 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Patillas Municipio
Humacao Municipio, PR 117 km (73 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Humacao Municipio
Arroyo Municipio, PR 117 km (73 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Arroyo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.3 98 km SSE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.2 54 km WSW of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 3.1 83 km SSE of Emajagua, 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.

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