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M 3.4md

20 km SSW of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

Yes. A magnitude 3.4 earthquake was recorded 20 km SSW of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, at 10:24 pm AST on 17 November 2025 (02:24 UTC), 121 km deep. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

· 121 km deep · released about 2.2 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Vieques Municipio 88 kmCulebra Municipio 98 kmCeiba Municipio 112 kmHumacao Municipio 118 kmNaguabo Municipio 119 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
121 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Nearest
Vieques Municipio, 88 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 358 days ago

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

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

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.

For this area

No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists one earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 6.1 22 km NNE of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands · 43 km NNE of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 17.5693, -64.8383. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Vieques Municipio, PR 88 km (55 mi) NW earthquakes near Vieques Municipio
Culebra Municipio, PR 98 km (61 mi) NNW earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 112 km (70 mi) NW earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Humacao Municipio, PR 118 km (74 mi) WNW earthquakes near Humacao Municipio
Naguabo Municipio, PR 119 km (74 mi) NW earthquakes near Naguabo Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR 121 km (75 mi) NW earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 23 km NNW of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 3.2 40 km SE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.6 33 km NNW of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 3.2 54 km WSW of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 3.1 30 km SSE of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 3.1 18 km NW of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 3.1 7 km S of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 2.8 41 km SE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.7 22 km NNE of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 3.4 38 km SSW of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 3.1 36 km SSW of Saint Croix, 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.

On USGS

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