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M 2.8md

35 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 94 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mayagüez Municipio 47 kmRincón Municipio 108 kmAguada Municipio 116 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 2.8 (md)
Depth
94 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 47 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2550 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 480 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 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 480 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 18.2860, -68.2760. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 47 km (29 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 108 km (67 mi) W of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 116 km (72 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 120 km (75 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 121 km (75 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 26 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  2. 3.6 17 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  3. 2.9 14 km ESE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  4. 2.9 55 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  5. 2.9 34 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  6. 3.1 8 km WSW of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 3.1 48 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 2.9 32 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  9. 2.2 29 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  10. 2.9 37 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  11. 2.9 37 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  12. 2.8 Mona Passage
  13. 2.8 53 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 2.9 57 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 3.0 59 km ESE 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 5.3 on 2019-02-04 — it released about 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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