Dominican Republic

Earthquakes in Dominican Republic, 2017–2026

From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 46 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off Dominican Republic. None reached magnitude 6: the strongest was a magnitude 5.9 on February 25, 2025 (102 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic).

The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded one earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.

The latest: magnitude 4.8 on September 27 (7 km WSW of Guaymate, Dominican Republic).

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The events

  • August 5, 2025Earthquake · M 5.738 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican RepublicUSGS
  • June 24, 2025Earthquake · M 5.777 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican RepublicUSGS
  • February 25, 2025Earthquake · M 5.9102 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican RepublicUSGS
  • December 22, 2023Earthquake · M 5.365 km NE of Samaná, Dominican RepublicUSGS
  • February 4, 2019Earthquake · M 5.327 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican RepublicUSGS

Good to know

  • An event counts for Dominican Republic when it began inside its borders, or at sea within 100 km of its coast (so one can count for two neighbours), or further out, up to 300 km, where Dominican Republic is the nearest country.
  • USGS counts are its ComCat catalogue’s earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more, aftershocks included.
  • NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
  • Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
  • A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
  • The map frames the box around Dominican Republic, its neighbours’ quakes included, so its count runs higher than this page’s.
  • Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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