Minor earthquake: M3.55 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Earthquake location 18.7596S, -68.382W A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.55 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/12/25 / 2025-12-05 02:45:35 / December 5, 2025 @ 2:45 am. Id of earthquake: pr2025339000. Event ids that are associated: us7000rfpg, pr2025339000. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 53 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 53 km, -68.382° West, 18.7596° North. The temblor was picked up at 02:45:35 / 2:45 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Miches, La Romana, Santa Cruz de El Seibo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place		Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	1970-01-01 00:00:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	1970-01-01 00:00:00	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		Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami		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		A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network		The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources		A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type		The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type		Type of seismic event.
Event ID		Id of event.
Event Code		An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS		A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

1970-01-01 00:00:00

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

1970-01-01 00:00:00

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

Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.

Tsunami

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

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.

Sources

A comma-separated list of network contributors.

Number of Stations Used

The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.

Horizontal Distance

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

Id of event.

Event Code

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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