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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Otra Banda in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Otra Banda in Dominican Republic. Id of earthquake: pr2025176006. Event ids that are associated: us7000q8sq, pr2025176006. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/06/25 / 2025-06-25 20:03:37 / June 25, 2025 @ 8:03 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 69 km (43 miles). The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:03:37 / 8:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.4321 West, latitude 19.0076 North, depth = 69 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Romana, Guaymate, Santa Cruz de El Seibo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 46 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.4321° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0076° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	69 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46 km NNE of Otra Banda, 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	2025-06-25 20:03:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-25 21:34:38	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	234	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4963	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	292	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	pr2025176006	Id of event.
Event Code	2025176006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000q8sq,pr2025176006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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