14 km SSW of Punta Cana, 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 780 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 19,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 14,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.2× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 780 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 18.4648, -68.4693. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.9 38 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 19:53 UTC
2. 2.6 27 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 07:24 UTC
3. 2.7 3 km NW of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 23:41 UTC
4. 3.3 31 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 16:24 UTC
5. 2.5 42 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 05:00 UTC
6. 2.9 37 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 22:39 UTC
7. 2.8 20 km N of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic 10:14 UTC
8. 3.1 25 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 14:43 UTC
9. 2.9 51 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 03:49 UTC
10. 3.1 24 km E of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 08:51 UTC
11. 3.1 30 km E of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 10:44 UTC
12. 2.9 36 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 10:42 UTC
13. 2.8 25 km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 07:00 UTC
14. 2.7 28 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 15:39 UTC
15. 2.9 3 km N of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic 19:19 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 15:22 UTC. 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 120 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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