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Light earthquake 4.05 mag, 16 km ENE of Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on May 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8161S, -68.8965WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.05 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo in Dominican Republic on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/05/25 / 2025-05-18 12:07:49 / May 18, 2025 @ 12:07 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -68.8965 West, latitude 18.8161 North, depth = 164 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:07:49 / 12:07 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 164 km (102 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr2025138000. Event ids that are associated: pr2025138000.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sánchez, Las Terrenas, Boca Chica (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 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. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km ENE of Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.05 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.8965° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8161° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 164 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km ENE of Santa Cruz de El Seibo, 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 2025-05-18 12:07:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-18 12:47:38 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 252 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5972 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 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 pr2025138000 Id of event.
Event Code 2025138000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2025138000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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