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Light mag. 4.1 earthquake - 70 km northwest of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, on Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 12:23 GMT

Light magnitude 4.1 earthquake at 22 km depth

14 Mar 19:26 UTC: First to report: EMSC after 7 hours.

Earthquake details

Date & time	Mar 14, 2020 12:23:20 UTC
Local time at epicenter
Status	Confirmed
Magnitude	4.1
Depth	22.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude	20.02°N / 70.99°W (North Atlantic Ocean, Dominican Republic)
Antipode	20.02°S / 109.01°E
Shaking intensity	Weak shaking near epicenter
Felt	0 reports
Primary data source	EMSC (European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre)
Nearest volcano	San Juan (133 km / 83 mi)
Nearby towns and cities	15 km (9 mi) NNW of Luperon (pop: 4,390) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 40 km (25 mi) NW of Puerto Plata (pop: 146,000) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 46 km (28 mi) NNW of Rio Grande (Altamira) (pop: 20,200) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 48 km (30 mi) N of Esperanza (pop: 42,200) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 52 km (32 mi) NW of Monte Llano (Villa Montellano) (pop: 19,000) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 52 km (32 mi) NNW of Villa Bisono (Bisono) (pop: 33,100) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 70 km (44 mi) NNW of Santiago de los Caballeros (pop: 1,200,000) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 85 km (53 mi) NW of Moca (pop: 61,800) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 93 km (58 mi) NW of Salcedo (pop: 45,300) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 207 km (129 mi) NW of Santo Domingo (pop: 2,201,900) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 113 km (70 mi) N of Haiti Island (pop: 21,107,000) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby
Weather at epicenter at time of quake
Estimated seismic energy released	8.9 x 10¹⁰ joules (24.8 megawatt hours, equivalent to 21.3 tons of TNT) \| about seismic energy

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Mag.	Depth	Location	Source
4.1	22 km	Dominican Republic Region	EMSC

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Seismograms

Seismic station: Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands (GRTK/CU network) | Distance from quake: 167 km / 103 mi | Show on map | Station Info

Seismic station Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands: vertical movement plot around time of quake (source: IRIS/BUD)

Seismogram (vertical component) around time of quake. Thin dotted red line indicates time of quake. Seismic waves arrive some time later, depending on distance. Source: IRIS Buffer of Uniform Data (BUD) webtool

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