M 5.7 in Dominican Republic on 24 Jun 2025 02:45 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1487227
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 68 Km
Lat/Lon: 19.2245 , -68.1103
Event Date: 24 Jun 2025 02:45 UTC
23 Jun 2025 21:45 Local
Exposed Population: 600 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 24 Jun 2025 04:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Dominican Republic)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
PRICO RS 0 0
pr2025175000 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

Where is earthquake risk highest in the Dominican Republic? 6/25/2025 7:11:00 PM.

Santo Domingo.- Following the 5.8-magnitude earthquake northeast of Punta Cana at 10:45 p.m. on Monday, June 23, concern has grown across the country. In response, geologist Osiris de León emphasized that the northern Dominican Republic fac
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5.7 magnitude earthquake is felt from Punta Cana to Santo Domingo 6/25/2025 12:46:00 PM.

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck off the Dominican Republic coast on Monday, 23 June 2025, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake was at a depth of 2 km (1.24 miles), USGS said. The earthquake occurred off the coast of
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Light mag. 3.9 earthquake (unconfirmed) - North Atlantic Ocean, 148 km.. 6/25/2025 9:34:00 AM.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Samana , a town with 11,000 inhabitants in the Dominican Republic , in 117 km (73 mi) distance southwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak sha
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Light mag. 3.9 earthquake - 29 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.. 6/25/2025 5:40:00 AM.

Based on data from the past 55 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 674 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 7 or higher: 0.02 quakes per year (or 1 q
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),