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Minor earthquake, 3.79 mag strikes near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on May 19, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.1631S, -68.5288WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.79 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 134 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic (83 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/05/25 / 2025-05-19 15:27:39 / May 19, 2025 @ 3:27 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2025139000. Id of event: pr2025139000. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 50 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.79-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:27:39 / 3:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.5288 West, latitude 17.1631 North, depth = 50 km.

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

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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: 134 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.79 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.5288° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.1631° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 134 km S 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 2025-05-19 15:27:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-19 17:27:52 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 221 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.3588 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 270 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 pr2025139000 Id of event.
Event Code 2025139000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2025139000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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