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M 3.8md

150 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic

· 62 km deep · released about 7.1 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.8 (md)
Depth
62 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 122 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 890 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 7.1 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 24,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,100× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 760× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.8 about 7.1 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 15× 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 17.0546, -68.2830. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 122 km (76 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 157 km (98 mi) SW 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

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

  1. 3.7 110 km SW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.9 123 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  3. 2.7 115 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.8 134 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  5. 3.1 140 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, 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.

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