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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

65 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 16 km deep · released about 650 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Aguadilla Municipio 91 kmMayagüez Municipio 91 kmRincón Municipio 91 kmAguada Municipio 94 kmIsabela Municipio 103 kmMoca Municipio 103 kmAñasco Municipio 105 kmQuebradillas Municipio 112 kmSan Sebastián Municipio 115 km
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
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 91 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2633 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 18.9015, -67.8830. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 91 km (56 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 91 km (56 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 91 km (57 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 94 km (58 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 103 km (64 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 103 km (64 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio

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. 3.0 81 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  2. 2.7 65 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  3. 2.8 87 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  4. 2.7 75 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.0 55 km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 2.9 57 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 2.6 73 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.4 Mona Passage
  9. 2.4 56 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  10. 2.8 85 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.6 54 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.5 44 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.4 97 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 2.1 81 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 2.5 74 km NE 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 4.4 on 2017-10-01 — it released about 180 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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