A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/08/25 / 2025-08-08 00:32:30 / August 8, 2025 @ 12:32 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 62 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr2025220000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qyzu, pr2025220000. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:32:30 / 12:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 62 km, -68.0156° West, 19.3151° North.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana. The epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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