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M 3.7ml

86 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 93 km deep · released about 5.5 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.7 (ml)
Depth
93 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 133 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2719 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 5.5 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 31,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 970× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.7 about 5.5 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 12× 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 19.2911, -68.0678. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 133 km (82 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 136 km (85 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 138 km (86 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 143 km (89 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 145 km (90 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 149 km (93 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.8 86 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  2. 3.3 86 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  3. 3.1 105 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.2 84 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  5. 2.5 60 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 2.6 78 km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 2.2 79 km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 3.1 92 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  9. 2.6 94 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic
  10. 3.3 85 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  11. 3.3 118 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  12. 3.1 103 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  13. 2.9 79 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 3.0 108 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 2.8 43 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 28 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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