154 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

2017-05-14 13:59 UTC · 43 km deep · released about 1,400 lb of TNT

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When: 2017-05-14 13:59 UTC
Magnitude: M 3.1 (md)
Depth: 43 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 3341 days ago · we first saw it 3341 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 1,400 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 230,000× the energy of this one
Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 10,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,400× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,400 lb of TNT
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.5× 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

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Epicentre 19.8285, -67.7478. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

3.1 114 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 02:59 UTC
3.4 128 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 02:49 UTC
3.1 118 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 05:25 UTC
3.4 127 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic 11:26 UTC
2.3 Mona Passage 05:13 UTC
2.8 136 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 06:24 UTC
2.9 114 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 10:19 UTC
3.4 137 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 04:27 UTC
3.2 125 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 00:45 UTC
3.1 117 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 23:58 UTC
3.0 121 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 01:25 UTC
2.9 114 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 02:56 UTC
3.0 117 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 16:16 UTC
3.2 124 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 10:12 UTC
3.3 124 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 18:17 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 21:00 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

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