M4.5 earthquake 130 km NE of Crane, Barbados
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck 130 km NE of Crane, Barbados on Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 2:35 AM AST (06:35 UTC), 10 km (6 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
- 4.5 (mb), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2015-07-19 06:35:03 UTC
- Depth
- 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 13.787° N, 58.467° 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, 1.9 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.09
- Depth from
- Operator assigned
- Station coverage gap
- 146°
- Stations used
- 64
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 8 in the 60 days after this one and 7 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.4182 km ENE of Crane, Barbados · 4082 days ago · 21 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.482 km NE of Greenland, Barbados · 4081 days ago · 13 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.489 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4081 days ago · 19 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.3140 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4080 days ago · 10 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.6116 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4076 days ago · 21 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.2146 km NE of Crane, Barbados · 4075 days ago · 24 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.4129 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4074 days ago · 20 km deep · 11 km away
- 4.6125 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4063 days ago · 23 km deep · 22 km away
Before
- 4.5151 km NE of Crane, Barbados · 4083 days ago · 10 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.2North Atlantic Ocean · 4083 days ago · 20 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.2126 km NE of Crane, Barbados · 4084 days ago · 21 km deep · 7 km away
- 4.699 km NE of Greenland, Barbados · 4084 days ago · 5 km deep · 62 km away · felt by 3
- 5.1142 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4086 days ago · 11 km deep · 17 km away · felt by 8
- 6.5128 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4086 days ago · 20 km deep · 12 km away · felt by 94 · tsunami flag
- 5.7135 km ENE of Bathsheba, Barbados · 4086 days ago · 7 km deep · 10 km away · felt by 25
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us1000308m. Read Tue, Sep 22, 2026, 3:31 AM UTC.