Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 55 km (34 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.2538 West, latitude 18.9856 North, depth = 55 km. Id of earthquake: pr2025175014. Event ids that are associated: us7000q8e2, pr2025175014. Global time and date of event 24/06/25 / 2025-06-24 09:32:23 / June 24, 2025 @ 9:32 am UTC/GMT. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:32:23 / 9:32 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Rafael del Yuma, Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 47 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.2538° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9856° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	55 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47 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	2025-06-24 09:32:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-24 12:56:09	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	168	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4886	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	176	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	pr2025175014	Id of event.
Event Code	2025175014	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000q8e2,pr2025175014,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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