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M 2.8md

125 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 51 km deep · released about 490 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (md)
Depth
51 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2940 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 490 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 31,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 490 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 19.5988, -67.8756. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 127 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  2. 3.2 107 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  3. 3.1 114 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.0 83 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  5. 3.1 81 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 3.2 85 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 3.2 136 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 2.9 107 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  9. 2.7 116 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  10. 2.8 97 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  11. 2.9 107 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  12. 2.9 104 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.1 99 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic
  14. 3.1 87 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 3.3 93 km NNE of Punta Cana, 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.

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