Santo Domingo.- A magnitude 3.9 earthquake was recorded Tuesday morning near La Romana, according to seismic monitoring data from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
The earthquake occurred at 11:55 a.m. local time and was located approximately 9 kilometers northeast of La Romana, at a depth of 117 kilometers.
The Dominican Republic’s National Seismology Center, operated by the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), also recorded several earthquakes across the country and surrounding areas on Tuesday. Its catalog includes a magnitude 3.0 event south of Punta Cana, a 3.2 earthquake northeast of Miches and a 2.6 tremor northwest of Sabana de la Mar.