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M 2.9md

79 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 64 km deep · released about 650 lb of TNT

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Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.9 (md)
Depth
64 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 119 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.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 650 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 23,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.5× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 650 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 19.1806, -67.9935. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 119 km (74 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 122 km (76 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 123 km (77 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 129 km (80 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 131 km (82 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 135 km (84 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

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

  1. 3.2 78 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.8 78 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  3. 3.3 89 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  4. 2.8 76 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  5. 3.2 101 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 2.9 98 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 3.0 76 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 2.3 66 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  9. 3.3 80 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  10. 3.3 88 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  11. 3.3 98 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  12. 3.2 53 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  13. 2.7 84 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 3.2 43 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 3.2 54 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 470 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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