124 km NNE of Punta Cana, 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 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 19.5670, -67.8385. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.6 94 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 09:24 UTC
2. 2.5 108 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 20:24 UTC
3. 2.8 109 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 23:07 UTC
4. 2.7 108 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic 17:38 UTC
5. 3.1 108 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 17:34 UTC
6. 3.3 108 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 20:35 UTC
7. 3.1 118 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 11:21 UTC
8. 3.0 136 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 06:34 UTC
9. 3.2 124 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 20:43 UTC
10. 3.3 99 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 14:13 UTC
11. 2.9 88 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 06:42 UTC
12. 3.0 98 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 23:38 UTC
13. 2.6 113 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 13:25 UTC
14. 3.5 116 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 18:49 UTC
15. 2.9 104 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 18:38 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 13:24 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 4.7 on 2018-12-07 — it released about 230 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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