Minor earthquake, 3.43 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 98.52 km (61 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/05/25 / 2025-05-15 04:19:24 / May 15, 2025 @ 4:19 am. Exact location of event, depth 98.52 km, -68.0445° West, 18.213° North. The 3.43-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:19:24 / 4:19 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr71482443. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71482443.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.43 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.0445° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.213° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	98.52 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55 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	2025-05-15 04:19:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-15 04:42:31	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	181	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4382	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	191	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	pr71482443	Id of event.
Event Code	71482443	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71482443,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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