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M 2.6ml

12 km ENE of La Romana, Dominican Republic

Yes. A magnitude 2.6 earthquake was recorded 12 km ENE of La Romana, Dominican Republic at 23:58 UTC on 2018-10-22, 128 km deep.

· 128 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (ml)
Depth
128 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 112 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2862 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 lb of TNT

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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.6 on 2016-03-20 — about 1,000 times the energy of this one.

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 18.4740, -68.8600. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 112 km (69 mi) ESE 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. 2.1 10 km SE of Salvaleón de Higüey, Dominican Republic
  2. 3.0 16 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  3. 2.6 19 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.3 8 km SSE of Guaymate, Dominican Republic
  5. 3.2 25 km N of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  6. 2.8 17 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  7. 3.0 14 km N of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  8. 3.2 20 km E of Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Dominican Republic
  9. 3.3 19 km NNW of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  10. 2.2 16 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic
  11. 2.6 6 km S of Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Dominican Republic
  12. 2.7 18 km SSW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.9 40 km S of La Romana, Dominican Republic
  14. 2.9 14 km SSW of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 3.4 15 km ENE of La Romana, 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.

On USGS

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