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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

71 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 25 km deep · released about 6.4 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
25 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 94 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2431 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 6.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.4 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 18.9776, -67.8676. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 94 km (59 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 96 km (60 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 98 km (61 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 99 km (62 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 105 km (65 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 106 km (66 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

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

  1. 2.8 85 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.8 78 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  3. 3.5 72 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.7 73 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.7 66 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.8 80 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.7 81 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.2 71 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  9. 3.1 82 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  10. 3.2 82 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.7 Mona Passage
  12. 3.0 66 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.6 73 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 2.2 61 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 3.4 77 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 4.6 on 2020-01-29 — it released about 38,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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