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M 4.0md

33 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 125 km deep · released about 16 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.0 (md)
Depth
125 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 98 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1463 days ago

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 16 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 480× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 340× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.0 about 16 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 33× 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 18.8736, -68.3085. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 98 km (61 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 126 km (78 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 131 km (81 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 154 km (96 mi) NW 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

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

  1. 3.4 Dominican Republic region
  2. 3.8 Dominican Republic region
  3. 3.9 27 km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.7 33 km E of Miches, Dominican Republic
  5. 3.8 75 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 3.9 79 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 4.2 Mona Passage
  8. 3.9 52 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  9. 3.8 66 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  10. 4.1 64 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  11. 4.4 Mona Passage
  12. 3.5 30 km N of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.9 10 km SE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  14. 3.7 21 km N of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  15. 3.0 2 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 4.4 on 2020-05-02 — it released about 3.8 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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