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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.6md

69 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic

· 164 km deep · released about 3.4 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 3.6 (md)
Depth
164 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 30 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3240 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 3.4 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 50,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,200× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.6 about 3.4 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 7.2× 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 17.9520, -68.1298. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 30 km (18 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 100 km (62 mi) W of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 102 km (64 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 109 km (68 mi) W of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 110 km (69 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 112 km (70 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 70 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  2. 2.9 45 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  3. 2.8 63 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.4 48 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  5. 3.2 78 km WSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.0 64 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 3.3 82 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  8. 3.2 Mona Passage
  9. 3.0 80 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.3 40 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  11. 3.0 48 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  12. 3.2 47 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  13. 2.9 52 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 2.7 52 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 2.7 41 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, 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 2017-06-22 — it released about 13 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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