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M 4.0md

59 km E of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 75 km deep · released about 15 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.0 (md)
Depth
75 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 62 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1380 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 15 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 5.8 500× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.0 about 15 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 32× 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 18.6445, -67.8475. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 62 km (39 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 72 km (44 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 76 km (47 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 76 km (47 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 85 km (53 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 86 km (54 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 55 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  2. 3.8 38 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  3. 3.8 75 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.6 79 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  5. 4.4 Mona Passage
  6. 3.4 63 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.8 36 km WNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.6 50 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  9. 3.4 53 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  10. 3.4 52 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  11. 3.3 75 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  12. 3.1 46 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.9 51 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.3 55 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.4 66 km SE 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 4.6 on 2020-01-29 — 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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