{"id":519293,"date":"2026-08-03T06:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/samana-earthquake-4-8-magnitude-tremor-recorded-south-of-sanchez\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T06:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:03:33","slug":"samana-earthquake-4-8-magnitude-tremor-recorded-south-of-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/samana-earthquake-4-8-magnitude-tremor-recorded-south-of-sanchez\/","title":{"rendered":"Saman\u00e1 earthquake: 4.8 magnitude tremor recorded south of S\u00e1nchez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santo Domingo.<\/strong>\u2013 A 4.8 magnitude <strong>Saman\u00e1 earthquake<\/strong> was recorded early this Monday morning south of the municipality of S\u00e1nchez, in the Saman\u00e1 province, according to data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States Geological Survey (USGS)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agency indicated that the earthquake occurred at 1:01 a.m. (Dominican Republic time), with its epicenter located 10 kilometers south of S\u00e1nchez, at coordinates 19.131 degrees north latitude and 69.630 degrees west longitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Saman\u00e1 Earthquake<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The USGS report states that the <strong>Saman\u00e1 earthquake<\/strong> occurred at a depth of 6.7 kilometers, a characteristic that often favors this type of event being felt by the population in areas near the epicenter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Saman\u00e1 Earthquake<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far, the Dominican authorities have not reported any affected persons or material damage related to the seismic event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dominican Republic is located in a region of high tectonic activity due to the interaction between the Caribbean and North American plates, which is why the recording of seismic movements of different magnitudes is frequent. The National Seismology Center of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) maintains permanent monitoring of seismic activity in the country and continues to follow up on the <strong>Saman\u00e1 earthquake<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.\u2013 A 4.8 magnitude Saman\u00e1 earthquake was recorded early this Monday morning south of the municipality of S\u00e1nchez, in the Saman\u00e1 province, according to data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The agency indicated that the earthquake occurred at 1:01 a.m. (Dominican Republic time), with its epicenter located 10 kilometers south of S\u00e1nchez, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":519294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[44182,40391,14853],"class_list":["post-519293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-cover","tag-earthquake","tag-samana"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2b5H","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/sismo-samana.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/sismo-samana.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}