M6.5 earthquake 128 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck 128 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados on Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 11:16 AM AST (15:16 UTC), 20 km (12 mi) below the surface.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.5 (mww), strong
- Local time
- UTC
- 2015-07-16 15:16:33 UTC
- Depth
- 20.0 km (12.4 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 13.867° N, 58.548° W
- Region
- Barbados
- Felt reports
- 94
- Strongest shaking
- IV, light shaking
- PAGER alert
- Green
- Tsunami flag
- Yes: a large quake in an oceanic region
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Tsunami
The USGS flags a quake this large in an oceanic region. The flag does not mean a tsunami happened; the tsunami warning centers decide that, and their messages are below when they issued any.
Current tsunami warnings: tsunami.gov. Warnings in force in the US also appear on our alerts pages.
Shaking
The USGS ShakeMap: shaking estimated from seismic stations and the quake’s size, on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.
- Strongest estimated
- IV, light shaking
- Map
- Automatic
Did you feel it?
94 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was IV, light shaking.
Estimated impact
The USGS PAGER system estimates deaths and economic losses from the shaking and the population and buildings exposed to it.
- Alert level
- Green: little or no damage or loss of life expected
Fault motion and ground failure
How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.
- Faulting
- Strike-slip
- Moment magnitude
- 6.5 Mww
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 320°, dip 90°, rake 179°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 50°, dip 89°, rake 0°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 3.3 km horizontally, 1.8 km in depth
- Depth from
- From modeling of broad-band P waveforms
- Station coverage gap
- 20°
- Stations used
- 439
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 2.5 and up: 14 in the 60 days after this one and 1 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 5.1142 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4085 days ago · 11 km deep · 14 km away · felt by 8
- 4.699 km NE of Greenland, Barbados · 4084 days ago · 5 km deep · 52 km away · felt by 3
- 4.2126 km NE of Crane, Barbados · 4084 days ago · 21 km deep · 7 km away
- 4.2North Atlantic Ocean · 4083 days ago · 20 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.5151 km NE of Crane, Barbados · 4083 days ago · 10 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.5130 km NE of Crane, Barbados · 4083 days ago · 10 km deep · 12 km away
- 4.4182 km ENE of Crane, Barbados · 4082 days ago · 21 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.482 km NE of Greenland, Barbados · 4081 days ago · 13 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.489 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4081 days ago · 19 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.3140 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4080 days ago · 10 km deep · 12 km away
- 4.6116 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4076 days ago · 21 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.2146 km NE of Crane, Barbados · 4075 days ago · 24 km deep · 20 km away
- 4.4129 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4074 days ago · 20 km deep · 2 km away
- 4.6125 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4063 days ago · 23 km deep · 10 km away
Before
Earthquakes todayBarbados earthquakesLive radar here
Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us20002xx1 (also filed as pt15197051, at00nrl6fn, gcmt20150716151632, iscgem611836215). Read Mon, Sep 21, 2026, 11:34 PM UTC.