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M 5.0ml

31 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic

· 87 km deep · released about 480 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 5.0 (ml)
Depth
87 km below the surface
Felt
177 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 65 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 279 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 177 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 480 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.0 about 480 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1,000× 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 18.1195, -68.4960. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 65 km (40 mi) W of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.7 24 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  2. 3.7 34 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  3. 3.0 28 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.4 15 km SW of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic
  5. 3.3 61 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 3.5 49 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 3.7 59 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 3.8 6 km W of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic
  9. 2.6 43 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  10. 3.8 54 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  11. 4.0 23 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  12. 3.5 49 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.8 Mona Passage
  14. 3.4 5 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  15. 3.9 28 km SE of Boca de Yuma, 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 2.8 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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