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M 3.4Md

52 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 95 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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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 3.4 (Md)
Depth
95 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 33 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3543 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4× 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 18.3761, -67.9550. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 33 km (21 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 74 km (46 mi) W of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 81 km (50 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 86 km (54 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 88 km (54 mi) W of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 92 km (57 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 33 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.8 34 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.4 71 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  4. 2.6 59 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.4 48 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  6. 3.4 70 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.4 39 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 3.2 57 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  9. 3.1 81 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  10. 3.2 41 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.8 42 km W of Stella, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.4 40 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.4 66 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 2.8 28 km W of Stella, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.2 59 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico

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 4.1 on 2016-08-27 — it released about 11 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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