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Minor earthquake, 3.96 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on December 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.7505S, -68.1573WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.96 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location, longitude -68.1573° West, latitude 18.7505° North, depth = 91 km. The 3.96-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:04:12 / 10:04 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2025352001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2025352001. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 91 km (57 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/12/25 / 2025-12-18 22:04:12 / December 18, 2025 @ 10:04 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaymate, San Rafael del Yuma, Salvaleón de Higüey (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 seven, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 32 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.1573° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7505° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 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 2025-12-18 22:04:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-18 22:33:53 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 241 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 ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3259 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 pr2025352001 Id of event.
Event Code 2025352001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2025352001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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