Minor earthquake, 3.39 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.39 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Global time and date of event 19/12/25 / 2025-12-19 01:51:01 / December 19, 2025 @ 1:51 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 01:51:01 / 1:51 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.9 km (14 miles). Unique identifier: pr71502598. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71502598. Exact location of event, longitude -68.0925 West, latitude 19.133 North, depth = 21.9 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Otra Banda, Punta Cana.

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 69 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.39 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.0925° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.133° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69 km NNE 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	2025-12-19 01:51:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-19 02:25:42	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	177	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6732	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	267	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	pr71502598	Id of event.
Event Code	71502598	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71502598,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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