7 km WNW of Guaymate, Dominican Republic

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 55 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.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 1,400× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 4.6 about 120 tons of TNT
5. 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

Epicentre 18.6142, -69.0460. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.0 10 km ENE of La Romana, Dominican Republic 16:08 UTC
2. 2.9 18 km NNW of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic 05:19 UTC
3. 2.7 11 km E of La Romana, Dominican Republic 04:19 UTC
4. 2.5 26 km E of Miches, Dominican Republic 04:33 UTC
5. 2.9 11 km SW of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic 16:30 UTC
6. 2.9 13 km ENE of La Romana, Dominican Republic 14:17 UTC
7. 1.6 Mona Passage 23:09 UTC
8. 3.3 5 km SE of Guaymate, Dominican Republic 10:08 UTC
9. 2.8 5 km E of La Romana, Dominican Republic 04:13 UTC
10. 3.4 11 km SSW of Salvaleón de Higüey, Dominican Republic 23:51 UTC
11. 3.3 25 km ESE of Miches, Dominican Republic 02:49 UTC
12. 2.5 10 km SE of La Romana, Dominican Republic 05:03 UTC
13. 3.2 17 km SW of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic 15:16 UTC
14. 3.1 15 km NNE of Guaymate, Dominican Republic 00:24 UTC
15. 3.0 18 km SSE of La Romana, Dominican Republic 04:56 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 23:44 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
• 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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