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M 2.3md

36 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic

· 56 km deep · released about 77 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
56 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 121 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3260 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 77 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 140,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 12× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 77 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 18.9666, -68.5605. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 121 km (75 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. 3.2 46 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  2. 2.3 58 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  3. 2.9 30 km NNE of Miches, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.4 23 km NW of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  5. 3.0 70 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 3.4 49 km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 2.8 36 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic
  8. 3.5 Dominican Republic region
  9. 2.0 50 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  10. 1.9 35 km E of Miches, Dominican Republic
  11. 3.3 72 km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  12. 2.4 48 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  13. 2.4 11 km E of Miches, Dominican Republic
  14. 3.3 42 km E of Miches, Dominican Republic
  15. 1.6 21 km ESE of Miches, 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 4.2 on 2017-09-03 — it released about 660 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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