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Minor earthquake, 3.82 mag was detected near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.82 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Event id: pr2025186005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2025186005. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/07/25 / 2025-07-05 15:49:39 / July 5, 2025 @ 3:49 pm. The temblor was reported at 15:49:39 / 3:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.5258 West, latitude 17.9365 North, depth = 80 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 80 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guaymate, Otra Banda, Salvaleón de Higüey (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 49 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.82 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.5258° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9365° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	80 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49 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	2025-07-05 15:49:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-05 16:33:37	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	224	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5952	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	229	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	pr2025186005	Id of event.
Event Code	2025186005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2025186005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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