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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.9md

58 km E of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 5.0 km deep · released about 9 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 3.9 (md)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 47 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1456 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 9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 19,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 840× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.9 about 9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 19× 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 18.5073, -67.8510. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 47 km (29 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 66 km (41 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 72 km (45 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 75 km (46 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 80 km (50 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 83 km (51 mi) W of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.4 66 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  2. 3.5 74 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.9 Mona Passage
  4. 2.9 30 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.9 18 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.6 Mona Passage
  7. 3.3 70 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.4 52 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  9. 3.0 28 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.0 46 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.5 60 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  12. 3.2 44 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.7 55 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 2.8 32 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  15. 4.0 59 km E 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 4.5 on 2021-10-14 — it released about 7.9 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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