8 km WSW of Hato Mayor del Rey, Dominican Republic

2017-04-03 02:45 UTC · 91 km deep · released about 120 tons of TNT

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When: 2017-04-03 02:45 UTC
Magnitude: M 4.6 (mwr)
Depth: 91 km below the surface
Felt: 318 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking: intensity IV (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert: green
Tsunami: USGS flagged this event for tsunami evaluation. Follow tsunami.gov for official messages.
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 3383 days ago · we first saw it 3383 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 318 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 120 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 1,400× the energy of this one
Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 4.6 about 120 tons of TNT
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 250× 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

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Epicentre 18.7451, -69.3395. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

3.3 8 km SSE of Guaymate, Dominican Republic 00:28 UTC
2.6 6 km S of Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Dominican Republic 01:12 UTC
3.1 15 km NE of Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Dominican Republic 07:49 UTC
3.5 4 km NNE of Guaymate, Dominican Republic 02:52 UTC
4.6 7 km WNW of Guaymate, Dominican Republic 14:12 UTC
3.2 7 km ENE of Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Dominican Republic 04:07 UTC
3.2 1 km NE of Guaymate, Dominican Republic 19:58 UTC
3.1 16 km SE of Miches, Dominican Republic 07:08 UTC
2.7 11 km ESE of Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Dominican Republic 10:33 UTC
3.0 9 km E of Miches, Dominican Republic 16:43 UTC
3.9 13 km E of Sabana de la Mar, Dominican Republic 01:55 UTC
3.4 9 km ENE of Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Dominican Republic 21:32 UTC
2.9 5 km E of Sabana de la Mar, Dominican Republic 15:20 UTC
3.2 7 km E of Guaymate, Dominican Republic 15:12 UTC
3.8 14 km E of Gonzalo, Dominican Republic 02:10 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 18:23 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 4.6 on 2016-03-20.

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
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ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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