127 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 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 86,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,800× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,700× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 2 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4.1× 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 19.7011, -68.1033. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 3.2 136 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 15:18 UTC
2. 2.9 107 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 04:24 UTC
3. 2.7 116 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 14:16 UTC
4. 2.9 107 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 09:30 UTC
5. 2.9 104 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic 08:21 UTC
6. 3.2 91 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic 23:44 UTC
7. 2.9 106 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic 22:22 UTC
8. 3.4 87 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic 18:03 UTC
9. 3.1 99 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic 17:15 UTC
10. 3.1 87 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 00:24 UTC
11. 3.3 93 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 13:09 UTC
12. 3.1 85 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 04:14 UTC
13. 2.6 95 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 00:00 UTC
14. 3.2 87 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic 16:41 UTC
15. 3.1 122 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 02:24 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 11:15 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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