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Minor earthquake, 3.78 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on July 3, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.7703S, -68.2536WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.78 (ml/mb) was reported 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude -68.2536° West, latitude 18.7703° North, depth = 65 km. Unique identifier: pr2025183000. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qa4d, pr2025183000. The epicenter was at a depth of 65 km (40 miles). The 3.78-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:10:38 / 3:10 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/07/25 / 2025-07-02 03:10:38 / July 2, 2025 @ 3:10 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Miches, La Romana, Santa Cruz de El Seibo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days sixty-six, in the past 30 days seventy-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.78 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.2536° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7703° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26 km NE 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 2025-07-02 03:10:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-03 01:16:44 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 220 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2865 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 pr2025183000 Id of event.
Event Code 2025183000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qa4d,pr2025183000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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