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M 3.2md

91 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic

· 44 km deep · released about 1,800 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (md)
Depth
44 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aguada Municipio, 168 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1759 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 1,800 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 8,200× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,800 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.9× 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 19.4326, -68.3216. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguada Municipio, PR 168 km (104 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguada 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. 3.9 Dominican Republic region
  2. 3.9 52 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  3. 3.7 Mona Passage
  4. 3.8 66 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  5. 4.1 64 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 3.7 113 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 3.4 78 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 3.9 85 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic
  9. 4.0 76 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  10. 3.9 130 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  11. 3.6 46 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic
  12. 4.1 52 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.5 59 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 3.8 44 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  15. 3.4 46 km ENE of Miches, 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 4.7 on 2018-12-07 — it released about 170 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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