102 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 5.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 29,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,300× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 900× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.7 about 5.9 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 12× 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 19.6153, -68.3386. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 3.6 93 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 22:19 UTC
2. 3.6 112 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 08:41 UTC
3. 3.7 103 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 06:27 UTC
4. 3.6 92 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 14:26 UTC
5. 3.4 79 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 14:05 UTC
6. 3.6 113 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 13:36 UTC
7. 3.7 117 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 08:17 UTC
8. 3.8 118 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 16:10 UTC
9. 3.5 123 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 12:18 UTC
10. 3.9 101 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 14:02 UTC
11. 4.2 91 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic 07:34 UTC
12. 3.6 90 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic 06:16 UTC
13. 3.8 117 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 23:35 UTC
14. 3.6 95 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 17:18 UTC
15. 3.4 75 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 16:22 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 13:20 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 230 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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