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M 4.0md

46 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 165 km deep · released about 16 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.0 (md)
Depth
165 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 32 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1437 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 18.2700, -68.1120. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 32 km (20 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 91 km (57 mi) W of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 98 km (61 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 103 km (64 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 104 km (64 mi) W of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 105 km (65 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.5 64 km ESE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  2. 3.8 Mona Passage
  3. 3.1 34 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.4 63 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.5 76 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 3.6 50 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 3.8 60 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 3.4 45 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  9. 3.4 63 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  10. 3.0 2 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  11. 3.4 53 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  12. 3.4 52 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.7 31 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  14. 3.6 19 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  15. 3.3 48 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico

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 86 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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