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Minor earthquake 3.58 mag, 66 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

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Earthquake location 19.0956S, -68.0726WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.58 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Event id: pr2025092000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ppdv, pr2025092000. The 3.58-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:59:53 / 3:59 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -68.0726 West, latitude 19.0956 North, depth = 11 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/04/25 / 2025-04-02 03:59:53 / April 2, 2025 @ 3:59 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Otra Banda, Punta Cana. Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 66 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.58 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0726° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0956° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66 km NNE 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 2025-04-02 03:59:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-02 08:02:13 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 197 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6586 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 218 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 pr2025092000 Id of event.
Event Code 2025092000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ppdv,pr2025092000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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