Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 151 km (94 miles). Exact location of event, depth 151 km, -68.7581° West, 17.8353° North. Global time and date of event 05/07/25 / 2025-07-05 08:21:37 / July 5, 2025 @ 8:21 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pr2025186002. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2025186002. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:21:37 / 8:21 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salvaleón de Higüey, Guaymate, La Romana. Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-six 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: 62 km SSW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.7581° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.8353° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	151 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	62 km SSW 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 08:21:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-05 09:04:05	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	222	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.7761	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	302	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	pr2025186002	Id of event.
Event Code	2025186002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2025186002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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