67 km NNE of Miches, Dominican Republic

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 21 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 8,200× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 370× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 260× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 4.1 about 21 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 43× 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 19.5073, -68.7231. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 3.7 85 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic 02:16 UTC
2. 3.5 78 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic 14:13 UTC
3. 3.9 80 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic 05:29 UTC
4. 3.6 95 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic 06:42 UTC
5. 3.8 77 km NE of Samaná, Dominican Republic 08:14 UTC
6. 3.3 21 km NNE of Miches, Dominican Republic 15:55 UTC
7. 2.9 40 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic 19:12 UTC
8. 3.2 92 km NE of Samaná, Dominican Republic 18:59 UTC
9. 3.3 73 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic 19:05 UTC
10. 3.0 46 km NE of Saman?, Dominican Republic 11:46 UTC
11. 4.3 33 km NE of Samaná, Dominican Republic 06:27 UTC
12. 4.4 33 km NE of Samaná, Dominican Republic 03:21 UTC
13. 3.7 45 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic 02:43 UTC
14. 4.2 91 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic 07:34 UTC
15. 3.6 90 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic 06:16 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 12:00 UTC. 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 2023-12-26 — it released about 65 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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