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M 2.0md

56 km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 13 km deep · released about 28 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (md)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 122 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2907 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 28 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 540,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 380,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 34× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 28 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 19.0898, -68.3421. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 122 km (76 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 142 km (88 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 97 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic
  2. 2.3 46 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  3. 2.8 74 km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.1 62 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  5. 3.1 68 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 3.0 Dominican Republic region
  7. 2.9 95 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 3.1 78 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  9. 3.4 73 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic
  10. 3.2 Dominican Republic region
  11. 3.0 Mona Passage
  12. 2.7 48 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.1 31 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 2.5 56 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  15. 3.0 83 km NE 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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