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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3md

63 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 92 km deep · released about 98 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mayagüez Municipio 103 kmAguadilla Municipio 106 kmRincón Municipio 107 kmAguada Municipio 110 kmIsabela Municipio 118 kmMoca Municipio 119 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 2.3 (md)
Depth
92 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 103 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2583 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 98 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 150,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 110,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 9.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 98 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 19.0026, -67.9913. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 103 km (64 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 106 km (66 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 107 km (67 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 110 km (68 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 118 km (73 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 119 km (74 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.1 73 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  2. 3.0 73 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  3. 3.1 98 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.0 90 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.9 83 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.2 92 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 2.9 85 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 3.1 94 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.6 97 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  10. 2.8 74 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.3 67 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  12. 2.6 94 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  13. 2.4 15 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 3.2 90 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 3.1 39 km NNE 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 3,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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