10 km ENE of La Romana, Dominican Republic

2019-05-20 16:08 UTC · 118 km deep · released about 27 lb of TNT

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: 2019-05-20 16:08 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.0 (md)
Depth: 118 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Mayagüez Municipio, 113 km ESE
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 2687 days ago · we first saw it 2687 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 27 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 560,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 390,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 35× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 2.0 about 27 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

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Epicentre 18.4551, -68.8805. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Mayagüez Municipio, PR	113 km (70 mi)	WNW of here	earthquakes near Mayagüez 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.

2.2 10 km SW of Guaymate, Dominican Republic 05:10 UTC
2.7 16 km NE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic 07:11 UTC
2.7 3 km NW of Salvaleón de Higüey, Dominican Republic 04:12 UTC
2.2 Mona Passage 07:18 UTC
3.2 14 km W of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 03:38 UTC
2.7 13 km WSW of Salvaleón de Higüey, Dominican Republic 11:19 UTC
2.4 15 km ESE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 17:32 UTC
2.7 1 km SSE of Guaymate, Dominican Republic 15:18 UTC
3.3 8 km NNE of La Romana, Dominican Republic 05:28 UTC
3.1 25 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 16:43 UTC
2.3 10 km WSW of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 07:54 UTC
3.3 6 km WSW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 14:15 UTC
2.8 13 km SW of Salvaleón de Higüey, Dominican Republic 04:48 UTC
2.6 2 km E of Guaymate, Dominican Republic 04:35 UTC
2.9 22 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 23:19 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 14:40 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 99,000 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
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