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M 2.8md

120 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 58 km deep · released about 430 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (md)
Depth
58 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 121 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2573 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 430 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 35,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 25,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 430 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 19.4338, -67.6981. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 121 km (75 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 128 km (79 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 129 km (80 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 134 km (83 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Quebradillas Municipio, PR 135 km (84 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Quebradillas Municipio
Camuy Municipio, PR 141 km (87 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Camuy Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 124 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  2. 3.3 99 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  3. 2.9 88 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.0 98 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  5. 2.6 113 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 3.5 116 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 2.9 104 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 2.3 90 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  9. 2.1 122 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  10. 2.8 84 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.8 85 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.8 78 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  13. 2.8 90 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.9 82 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 3.1 82 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 4.7 on 2018-12-07 — it released about 710 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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