Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/08/25 / 2025-08-13 09:40:09 / August 13, 2025 @ 9:40 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 84.936 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -68.2043 West, latitude 18.3389 North, depth = 84.936 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000r0b2. Unique identifier: us6000r0b2. The temblor was picked up at 09:40:09 / 9:40 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda, San Rafael del Yuma. The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.2043° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.3389° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	84.936 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34 km SE 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	2025-08-13 09:40:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-13 09:50:51	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	138	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.242	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.53 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	166	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	us6000r0b2	Id of event.
Event Code	6000r0b2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000r0b2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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