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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

42 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 83 km deep · released about 750 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
83 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 38 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2621 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 750 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 20,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 14,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.3× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 750 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 18.2463, -68.1998. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 38 km (23 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 101 km (63 mi) W of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 108 km (67 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 111 km (69 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 113 km (70 mi) W of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 114 km (71 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 8 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  2. 3.0 41 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  3. 2.9 60 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  4. 2.3 49 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  5. 2.4 34 km ESE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  6. 2.8 21 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 2.9 35 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 2.4 72 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.2 41 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  10. 3.2 45 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  11. 3.0 65 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.2 56 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.1 44 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 2.1 64 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 2.8 Mona Passage

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 5.3 on 2019-02-04 — it released about 3,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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