97 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic

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 2.6 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 65,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,900× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,100× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.6 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.4× 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 19.5150, -68.3078. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 3.4 94 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic 06:00 UTC
2. 3.3 72 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic 11:37 UTC
3. 3.1 70 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic 10:46 UTC
4. 2.4 65 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 11:17 UTC
5. 3.0 70 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 13:06 UTC
6. 2.5 89 km NNE of Miches, Dominican Republic 21:46 UTC
7. 2.8 84 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 02:00 UTC
8. 3.1 78 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 23:05 UTC
9. 3.0 70 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 03:26 UTC
10. 2.8 97 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 21:07 UTC
11. 3.3 72 km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 10:29 UTC
12. 3.3 96 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 11:21 UTC
13. 3.2 98 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 01:34 UTC
14. 3.3 99 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 08:46 UTC
15. 2.4 69 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic 09:20 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 22:57 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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