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M 5.8ml

102 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

· 46 km deep · released about 9 kilotons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 5.8 (ml)
Depth
46 km below the surface
Felt
393 reports · strongest reported intensity VI
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
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Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 147 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 214 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 393 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 9 kilotons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Ridgecrest, California 2019 M 7.1 75× the energy of this one
  2. Loma Prieta, California 1989 M 6.9 38× the energy of this one
  3. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 19× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.8 about 9 kilotons of TNT
  5. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 this one released 1.7× more
  6. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 19,000× 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 19.4565, -68.0846. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 147 km (91 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 156 km (97 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.3 93 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  2. 3.6 73 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  3. 3.3 100 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.4 105 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  5. 3.3 105 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 3.5 94 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 3.6 92 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 3.3 93 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  9. 3.6 93 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  10. 3.4 91 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  11. 3.1 110 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  12. 3.6 96 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.4 99 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 3.6 66 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 3.6 112 km NNE 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 4.7 on 2018-12-07.

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

On USGS

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