A minor earthquake magnitude 3.59 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/07/25 / 2025-07-02 04:17:35 / July 2, 2025 @ 4:17 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 63 km (39 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2025183002. Unique identifier: pr2025183002. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.378 West, latitude 18.7571 North, depth = 63 km. The 3.59-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:17:35 / 4:17 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Miches, La Romana, Santa Cruz de El Seibo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 73 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), 70 km (43 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 75 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fifty-nine, in the past 30 days sixty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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