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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2md

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

· 21 km deep · released about 1,800 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Culebra Municipio 93 kmFajardo Municipio 103 kmLuquillo Municipio 113 kmCeiba Municipio 117 kmRío Grande Municipio 119 kmVieques 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 3.2 (md)
Depth
21 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Culebra Municipio, 93 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 178 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 1,800 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 8,200× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,800 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.9× 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 19.1023, -64.9672. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culebra Municipio, PR 93 km (58 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR 103 km (64 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 113 km (70 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 117 km (73 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 119 km (74 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Vieques Municipio, PR 119 km (74 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Vieques Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.4 103 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 3.1 79 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.9 94 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 3.0 77 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 3.4 82 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 3.4 91 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 4.0 87 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 2.8 37 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 3.1 85 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 3.1 85 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  11. 4.2 88 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.6 76 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.9 93 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.2 87 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.3 76 km N of Culebra, 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 5.0 on 2021-02-06 — it released about 500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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