A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.36 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/04/25 / 2025-04-10 06:36:14 / April 10, 2025 @ 6:36 am. Id of earthquake: pr71478783. Event ids that are associated: pr71478783. The temblor was picked up at 06:36:14 / 6:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.505666666667 West, latitude 17.913666666667 North, depth = 56.31 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 56.31 km (35 miles).
Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salvaleón de Higüey, La Romana, Punta Cana. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 52 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.
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