A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/04/25 / 2025-04-29 16:11:24 / April 29, 2025 @ 4:11 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pt25119053. Ids that are associated to the event: pt25119053. The temblor was picked up at 16:11:24 / 4:11 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 114.9 km (71 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.153 West, latitude 18.434 North, depth = 114.9 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguadilla, Aguada, Santa Cruz de El Seibo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (54 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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