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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on July 14, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0533S, -67.948WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:25:52 / 6:25 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -67.948 West, latitude 19.0533 North, depth = 35 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000q8d0. Unique identifier: us7000q8d0. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/06/25 / 2025-06-24 06:25:52 / June 24, 2025 @ 6:25 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-one, in the last 10 days eighty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 70 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.948° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0533° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70 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 2025-06-24 06:25:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-14 09:53:58 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 129 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.675 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 254 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 us7000q8d0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000q8d0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000q8d0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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