6 km SE of Sabana del Puerto, Dominican Republic

2020-10-07 14:14 UTC · 86 km deep · released about 60 tons of TNT

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: 2020-10-07 14:14 UTC
Magnitude: M 4.4 (mb)
Depth: 86 km below the surface
Felt: 2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 1511 days ago · we first saw it 1511 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 60 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 2,800× the energy of this one
Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 4.4 about 60 tons of TNT
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 130× 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 19.0317, -70.3648. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

4.3 6 km NNW of Castillo, Dominican Republic 16:24 UTC
4.2 12 km WSW of Juan Adrián, Dominican Republic 05:52 UTC
4.4 4 km WNW of Villa Riva, Dominican Republic 00:56 UTC
4.5 16 km NE of San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic 16:51 UTC
4.0 6 km ENE of Baitoa, Dominican Republic 08:53 UTC
4.4 1 km SW of Piedra Blanca, Dominican Republic 12:14 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 23:03 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 4.5 on 2017-02-27 — it released about 1.4 times the energy of this one.

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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