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Minor earthquake, 3.46 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.46 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 80 km (50 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/06/25 / 2025-06-30 22:21:34 / June 30, 2025 @ 10:21 pm. Exact location of event, depth 80 km, -68.2656° West, 18.6618° North. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2025181004. Unique identifier: pr2025181004. The temblor was picked up at 22:21:34 / 10:21 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, La Romana, Guaymate (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 three, in the last 10 days sixty, in the past 30 days sixty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 17 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.46 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.2656° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6618° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	80 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km ENE 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	2025-06-30 22:21:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-30 23:30:41	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	184	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1878	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	153	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	pr2025181004	Id of event.
Event Code	2025181004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2025181004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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