QuakeIndex

Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 4.7mwr

43 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands

· 40 km deep · released about 170 tons of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N Culebra Municipio 79 kmVieques Municipio 103 kmFajardo Municipio 103 kmCeiba Municipio 112 kmLuquillo Municipio 116 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 4.7 (mwr)
Depth
40 km below the surface
Felt
154 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Culebra Municipio, 79 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1608 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 154 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 170 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 1,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.7 about 170 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 350× 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 18.7020, -64.6711. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culebra Municipio, PR 79 km (49 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Vieques Municipio, PR 103 km (64 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Vieques Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR 103 km (64 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 112 km (70 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 116 km (72 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 124 km (77 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.6 80 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 3.4 75 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 3.4 41 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 2.8 45 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 3.2 76 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 3.1 63 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 3.1 77 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 3.1 32 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 3.1 57 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 3.3 86 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 3.5 72 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 3.1 21 km NNE of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  13. 3.4 74 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 3.2 36 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 3.3 71 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 4.5 on 2018-02-09.

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

On USGS

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.