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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.3md

78 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 15 km deep · released about 1.4 tons of TNT

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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 3.3 (md)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 90 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2353 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.4 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 120,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,200× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 3,700× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.4 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 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 18.9935, -67.8051. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 90 km (56 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 93 km (58 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 95 km (59 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 101 km (63 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 102 km (63 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 103 km (64 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

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

  1. 2.8 78 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  2. 3.5 72 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.7 73 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.7 66 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.8 80 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.7 81 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.2 71 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 3.1 82 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  9. 3.2 82 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.7 Mona Passage
  11. 3.0 66 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.6 73 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  13. 2.2 61 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 3.4 77 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 2.8 57 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico

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 4.6 on 2020-01-29 — it released about 83 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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