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M 2.8md

63 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 116 km deep · released about 400 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (md)
Depth
116 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 20 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3077 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 400 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 38,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 27,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 400 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 18.2620, -67.9016. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 20 km (12 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 69 km (43 mi) W of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 77 km (48 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 81 km (51 mi) W of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 82 km (51 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 84 km (52 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 66 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  2. 3.3 52 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  3. 2.8 44 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  4. 2.8 69 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.2 51 km ESE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  6. 3.2 43 km ESE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  7. 3.4 33 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 2.6 39 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.7 39 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.4 Mona Passage
  11. 3.2 60 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  12. 3.2 51 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.0 40 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 2.8 51 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 2.8 37 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico

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 4.4 on 2017-10-01 — it released about 300 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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