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M 4.5mwr

North of the Virgin Islands

· 24 km deep · released about 85 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.5 (mwr)
Depth
24 km below the surface
Felt
5 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1066 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 5 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 85 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 2,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.5 about 85 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 180× 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 20.1685, -64.1936. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.7 165 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 3.6 187 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 3.9 169 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 4.1 176 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 3.1 183 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 3.9 165 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 3.8 180 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 3.7 175 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 4.0 172 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 3.7 168 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 3.8 176 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 3.7 163 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  13. 4.0 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.

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