60 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 29 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 5,800× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 260× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 4.2 about 29 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 61× 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 17.8308, -68.5650. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 3.9 18 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 14:22 UTC
2. 3.3 Mona Passage 15:21 UTC
3. 3.8 39 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 18:43 UTC
4. 3.8 35 km SSW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 05:26 UTC
5. 3.4 Mona Passage 16:05 UTC
6. 3.6 27 km SSW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 00:25 UTC
7. 3.8 48 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 23:37 UTC
8. 3.4 38 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 04:52 UTC
9. 3.7 65 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 07:42 UTC
10. 4.0 34 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 06:47 UTC
11. 4.0 24 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 05:23 UTC
12. 3.1 34 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 06:13 UTC
13. 3.2 69 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 14:05 UTC
14. 3.4 45 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 00:27 UTC
15. 3.9 55 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 01:32 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 14:07 UTC. 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 46 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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