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M 2.4md

62 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 10 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (md)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 23 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2845 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 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 120,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 86,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.7× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 18.2868, -67.9005. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 23 km (14 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 76 km (47 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 81 km (50 mi) W of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 83 km (51 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 83 km (51 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

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

  1. 2.9 64 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  2. 2.5 48 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.7 29 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.7 72 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.6 46 km ESE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  6. 2.8 69 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.0 59 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 2.8 59 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.1 67 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  10. 2.8 66 km SE of Punta Cana, 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. 3.1 35 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  14. 2.4 25 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.0 63 km SE 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.4 on 2017-10-01 — it released about 970 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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