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M 2.8md

13 km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 93 km deep · released about 510 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (md)
Depth
93 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 90 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3282 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 510 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 30,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 21,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 510 lb of TNT

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 18.7063, -68.4243. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 90 km (56 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 20 km E of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  2. 3.2 8 km W of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic
  3. 3.1 53 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.4 42 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  5. 3.6 4 km SSE of Salvaleón de Higüey, Dominican Republic
  6. 2.6 34 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 2.6 13 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  8. 2.5 21 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  9. 2.9 21 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  10. 2.8 7 km SSW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  11. 2.4 8 km NNW of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  12. 2.2 9 km NW of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic
  13. 2.5 37 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 3.2 13 km NNW of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  15. 2.7 29 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

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 4.3 on 2016-03-13 — it released about 170 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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