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M 4.5md

9 km S of Salvaleón de Higüey, Dominican Republic

· 135 km deep · released about 79 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.5 (md)
Depth
135 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 101 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 804 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 79 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 2,100× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 95× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 68× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.5 about 79 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 170× 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 18.5341, -68.7190. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 101 km (63 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 4.3 5 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  2. 3.4 33 km NE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  3. 3.4 15 km SW of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.3 11 km SSW of Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Dominican Republic
  5. 3.9 9 km SSW of Salvaleón de Higüey, Dominican Republic
  6. 3.6 5 km SW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  7. 4.2 17 km SSE of La Romana, Dominican Republic
  8. 3.8 25 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  9. 3.9 12 km S of La Romana, Dominican Republic
  10. 3.8 27 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  11. 3.9 23 km SSW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  12. 4.1 10 km SSW of Salvaleón de Higüey, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.7 16 km SW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  14. 3.5 20 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  15. 3.8 5 km SSE of Otra Banda, 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 5.3 on 2019-02-04 — it released about 17 times the energy of this one.

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

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