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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

39 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 77 km deep · released about 650 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mayagüez Municipio 79 kmRincón Municipio 100 kmAguadilla Municipio 104 kmAguada Municipio 104 kmAñasco Municipio 114 kmMoca Municipio 115 kmIsabela Municipio 117 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 2.9 (md)
Depth
77 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 79 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2493 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 650 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 23,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.5× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 650 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 18.7718, -68.0835. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 79 km (49 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 100 km (62 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 104 km (65 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 104 km (65 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 114 km (71 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 115 km (71 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 86 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  2. 2.9 58 km E of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  3. 2.8 84 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.1 48 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  5. 2.8 50 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 2.0 70 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.9 41 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 2.8 67 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  9. 2.9 65 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.0 22 km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  11. 3.2 36 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  12. 3.1 60 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.1 54 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.3 62 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 3.1 79 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 4.4 on 2017-10-01 — it released about 180 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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