M4.4 earthquake 89 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck 89 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados on Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 7:08 PM AST (23:08 UTC), 19 km (12 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.6 116 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.4 (mb), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2015-07-20 23:08:17 UTC
- Depth
- 18.8 km (11.7 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 13.825° N, 58.991° W
- Region
- Barbados
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 4.7 km horizontally, 5.4 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.10
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 131°
- Stations used
- 60
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 5 in the 60 days after this one and 9 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.3140 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4080 days ago · 10 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.6116 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4076 days ago · 21 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.2146 km NE of Crane, Barbados · 4075 days ago · 24 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.4129 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4074 days ago · 20 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.6125 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4063 days ago · 23 km deep · 42 km away
Before
- 4.482 km NE of Greenland, Barbados · 4081 days ago · 13 km deep · 11 km away
- 4.5130 km NE of Crane, Barbados · 4083 days ago · 10 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.5151 km NE of Crane, Barbados · 4083 days ago · 10 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.2North Atlantic Ocean · 4083 days ago · 20 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.2126 km NE of Crane, Barbados · 4084 days ago · 21 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.699 km NE of Greenland, Barbados · 4084 days ago · 5 km deep · 16 km away · felt by 3
- 5.1142 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4085 days ago · 11 km deep · 61 km away · felt by 8
- 6.5128 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4085 days ago · 20 km deep · 48 km away · felt by 94 · tsunami flag
- 5.7135 km ENE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4086 days ago · 7 km deep · 56 km away · felt by 25
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us20002ysc. Read Tue, Sep 22, 2026, 12:25 AM UTC.