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M 4.5ml

28 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 143 km deep · released about 71 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 4.5 (ml)
Depth
143 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 49 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1744 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 4 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 71 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 2,400× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 110× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 75× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.5 about 71 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 150× 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 18.3885, -68.2210. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 49 km (30 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 103 km (64 mi) W of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 109 km (68 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 114 km (71 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 116 km (72 mi) W of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 118 km (73 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.9 28 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  2. 4.0 56 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  3. 3.4 44 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.5 49 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  5. 3.5 37 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 3.0 66 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 3.7 11 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 3.8 21 km ESE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  9. 3.1 64 km W of Stella, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.5 31 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  11. 3.9 30 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  12. 3.5 27 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.0 61 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 3.8 23 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 3.8 35 km SSE 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 19 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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