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M 2.2md

63 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic

· 30 km deep · released about 67 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (md)
Depth
30 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 81 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2794 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 67 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 230,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 160,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 14× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 67 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 17.8086, -68.5978. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 81 km (50 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 66 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  2. 2.8 17 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  3. 3.1 72 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  4. 2.9 47 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  5. 2.7 75 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  6. 3.0 55 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  7. 3.2 Mona Passage
  8. 3.3 53 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  9. 3.0 58 km S of La Romana, Dominican Republic
  10. 3.0 37 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  11. 2.6 40 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  12. 2.4 38 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  13. 2.8 62 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  14. 2.6 79 km S of La Romana, Dominican Republic
  15. 2.8 59 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.3 on 2017-06-22 — it released about 1,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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