6 km S of El Puerto, Dominican Republic

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 30 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 5,600× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 4.2 about 30 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 63× 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 18.7292, -69.4594. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 4.3 11 km SSE of Ramón Santana, Dominican Republic 07:05 UTC
2. 2.8 12 km NW of La Romana, Dominican Republic 07:00 UTC
3. 3.8 9 km SE of Ramón Santana, Dominican Republic 22:47 UTC
4. 4.2 7 km S of Monte Plata, Dominican Republic 12:05 UTC
5. 2.9 6 km SE of Pedro Sánchez, Dominican Republic 01:05 UTC
6. 4.7 4 km SE of Ramón Santana, Dominican Republic 17:31 UTC
7. 4.1 7 km SW of Ram?n Santana, Dominican Republic 11:54 UTC
8. 4.2 11 km WNW of Guayabo Dulce, Dominican Republic 00:15 UTC
9. 3.4 7 km SSW of Samaná, Dominican Republic 01:04 UTC
10. 2.9 4 km W of Guaymate, Dominican Republic 06:42 UTC
11. 3.0 18 km S of Sánchez, Dominican Republic 09:33 UTC
12. 4.6 10 km S of Sánchez, Dominican Republic 09:00 UTC
13. 3.5 5 km WSW of El Valle, Dominican Republic 17:22 UTC
14. 3.2 6 km NNW of Guayabo Dulce, Dominican Republic 15:21 UTC
15. 3.9 11 km NE of Los Llanos, Dominican Republic 08:53 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 13:35 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 4.7 on 2018-06-03 — it released about 5.6 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
• 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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