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M 4.5md

99 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic

· 84 km deep · released about 85 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.5 (md)
Depth
84 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 164 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2732 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 85 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 2,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.5 about 85 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 180× more

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 19.4966, -68.2711. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 164 km (102 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.5 119 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  2. 2.7 65 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  3. 3.2 123 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic
  4. 2.9 101 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  5. 2.7 102 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 2.8 64 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 3.3 Dominican Republic region
  8. 2.5 72 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  9. 2.4 73 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  10. 2.1 56 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  11. 2.5 74 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  12. 2.9 94 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.0 99 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 2.7 65 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 3.3 67 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.7 on 2018-12-07 — it released about 1.8 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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