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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 4.3mb

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

· 10 km deep · released about 43 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.3 (mb)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2986 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 43 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.3 about 43 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 89× 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 20.1828, -65.0190. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.7 181 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 3.9 169 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 3.8 181 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 3.8 182 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 3.7 184 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.4 175 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 3.3 163 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.8 163 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 3.2 173 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 3.3 180 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.4 178 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 4.7 on 2017-07-22 — it released about 4 times the energy of this one.

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

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