3 km N of San Rafael del Yuma, 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 590 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 26,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 18,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.6× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 590 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 18.4570, -68.6696. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.5 10 km SE of La Romana, Dominican Republic 05:03 UTC
2. 3.2 17 km SW of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic 15:16 UTC
3. 3.1 15 km NNE of Guaymate, Dominican Republic 00:24 UTC
4. 3.1 24 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 07:24 UTC
5. 3.2 41 km SSW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 13:43 UTC
6. 3.0 18 km SSE of La Romana, Dominican Republic 04:56 UTC
7. 3.5 9 km SW of Salvaleón de Higüey, Dominican Republic 01:43 UTC
8. 2.7 38 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 06:59 UTC
9. 2.6 12 km SW of La Romana, Dominican Republic 08:48 UTC
10. 2.8 16 km SSW of La Romana, Dominican Republic 05:36 UTC
11. 3.2 4 km N of La Romana, Dominican Republic 16:38 UTC
12. 3.2 8 km NW of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic 14:20 UTC
13. 2.3 19 km SE of La Romana, Dominican Republic 04:49 UTC
14. 2.2 13 km W of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic 07:16 UTC
15. 3.0 38 km ESE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 06:09 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 14:59 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 5.3 on 2019-02-04 — it released about 4,600 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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