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M 4.5mb

4 km WSW of Cevicos, Dominican Republic

· 73 km deep · released about 85 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.5 (mb)
Depth
73 km below the surface
Felt
242 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Tsunami
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Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3414 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 242 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 85 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 2,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.5 about 85 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 180× 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 18.9967, -70.0194. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 4.5 3 km S of Sánchez, Dominican Republic
  2. 4.4 7 km NNW of Bayaguana, Dominican Republic
  3. 4.3 6 km NNW of Castillo, Dominican Republic
  4. 4.1 8 km E of Gonzalo, Dominican Republic
  5. 4.2 7 km S of Monte Plata, Dominican Republic
  6. 4.1 9 km SSW of Sánchez, Dominican Republic
  7. 4.4 4 km WNW of Villa Riva, Dominican Republic
  8. 4.5 16 km NE of San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic
  9. 4.4 5 km N of Villa Riva, Dominican Republic
  10. 3.9 7 km E of El Factor, Dominican Republic
  11. 4.0 5 km SE of El Factor, Dominican Republic
  12. 4.4 1 km SW of Piedra Blanca, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.0 18 km S of Sánchez, Dominican Republic
  14. 4.6 10 km S of Sánchez, Dominican Republic
  15. 4.4 6 km SE of Sabana del Puerto, 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 4.5 on 2016-08-26.

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

On USGS

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