Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 07:44:49 / 7:44 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2025179001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2025179001. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/06/25 / 2025-06-28 07:44:49 / June 28, 2025 @ 7:44 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 40 km (25 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -68.2386 West, latitude 18.8436 North, depth = 40 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaymate, San Rafael del Yuma, Salvaleón de Higüey (min 5000 pop).

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 fifty-five, in the past 30 days sixty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 33 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.2386° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8436° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	40 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33 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	2025-06-28 07:44:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-28 08:15:10	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	188	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3593	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	169	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	pr2025179001	Id of event.
Event Code	2025179001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2025179001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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