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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1md

81 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 30 km deep · released about 40 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Aguadilla Municipio 95 kmRincón Municipio 99 kmAguada Municipio 100 kmIsabela Municipio 105 kmMoca Municipio 108 kmMayagüez Municipio 108 kmAñasco Municipio 111 kmQuebradillas Municipio 114 kmSan Sebastián Municipio 120 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 2.1 (md)
Depth
30 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 95 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2672 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 40 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 380,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 270,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 24× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 40 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 19.0511, -67.8136. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 95 km (59 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 99 km (61 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 100 km (62 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 105 km (65 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 108 km (67 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 108 km (67 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 86 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  2. 2.9 89 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.5 88 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  4. 2.9 80 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  5. 3.0 42 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 3.0 82 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 2.9 116 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.4 69 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.2 72 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  10. 2.5 76 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.7 94 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  12. 2.3 45 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  13. 2.8 100 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 2.8 82 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.5 60 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico

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 7,700 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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