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Minor earthquake: M3.91 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on March 15, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2625S, -67.8928WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.91 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Id of earthquake: pr2025074000. Event ids that are associated: pr2025074000. The 3.91-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:02:30 / 9:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/03/25 / 2025-03-15 09:02:30 / March 15, 2025 @ 9:02 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.8928 West, latitude 18.2625 North, depth = 115 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 115 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Cabo Rojo (c. 10 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Puerto Real (c. 6 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Moca, Hormigueros.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 64 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8928° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2625° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-15 09:02:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-15 09:30:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 235 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5495 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2025074000 Id of event.
Event Code 2025074000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2025074000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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