63 km ENE 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 3.2 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 53,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,400× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 3.2 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 6.7× 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 19.2023, -68.4896. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 3.3 72 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic 11:37 UTC
2. 3.1 70 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic 10:46 UTC
3. 3.5 42 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic 21:40 UTC
4. 2.0 13 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic 08:21 UTC
5. 2.4 65 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 11:17 UTC
6. 3.0 70 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 13:06 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. 3.1 46 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 18:07 UTC
10. 2.4 38 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic 19:36 UTC
11. 2.1 31 km N of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic 11:03 UTC
12. 3.2 46 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic 06:49 UTC
13. 2.3 58 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 02:08 UTC
14. 2.9 30 km NNE of Miches, Dominican Republic 22:23 UTC
15. 3.0 70 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 03:26 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 18:19 UTC. 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 4.8 on 2016-11-13 — it released about 75 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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