9 km WSW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic

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 1.1 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 150,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 6,900× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,900× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1.1 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.3× more

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 18.3395, -68.6938. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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. 3.3 21 km SSW of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic 19:46 UTC
2. 2.7 34 km SW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 00:30 UTC
3. 2.9 10 km W of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic 12:34 UTC
4. 2.6 33 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 06:12 UTC
5. 2.9 Mona Passage 00:29 UTC
6. 3.3 28 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 06:06 UTC
7. 2.9 41 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 05:46 UTC
8. 2.3 4 km SE of Salvaleón de Higüey, Dominican Republic 05:15 UTC
9. 2.2 10 km SW of Guaymate, Dominican Republic 05:10 UTC
10. 2.7 16 km NE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic 07:11 UTC
11. 2.7 3 km NW of Salvaleón de Higüey, Dominican Republic 04:12 UTC
12. 2.6 39 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 07:11 UTC
13. 2.6 50 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 03:30 UTC
14. 2.9 30 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 15:27 UTC
15. 3.3 35 km ESE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 06:34 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 17:35 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 1,200 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
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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