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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

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Earthquake location 18.3583S, -68.2301WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/04/25 / 2025-04-29 16:11:25 / April 29, 2025 @ 4:11 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.2301 West, latitude 18.3583 North, depth = 110.437 km. Unique identifier: us7000pvvz. Ids that are associated to the event: pt25119053, us7000pvvz. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:11:25 / 4:11 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 110.437 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate, La Romana (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 47 km (30 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 30 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.2301° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.3583° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.437 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 km SE 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 2025-04-29 16:11:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-29 16:39:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 43 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 358 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 164 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.211 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000pvvz Id of event.
Event Code 7000pvvz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt25119053,us7000pvvz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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