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Minor earthquake, 3.65 mag strikes near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on May 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4766S, -68.525WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.65 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 134 km (83 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 16/05/25 / 2025-05-16 12:03:25 / May 16, 2025 @ 12:03 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.525 West, latitude 18.4766 North, depth = 134 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:03:25 / 12:03 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2025136000. Event ids that are associated: pr2025136000.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hato Mayor del Rey, San Pedro de Macorís, Miches (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km NE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.65 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.525° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4766° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 134 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km NE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-16 12:03:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-16 14:22:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 205 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1484 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2025136000 Id of event.
Event Code 2025136000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2025136000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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