Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Miches in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/07/25 / 2025-07-20 11:01:03 / July 20, 2025 @ 11:01 am UTC/GMT. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:01:03 / 11:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.7867 West, latitude 19.0566 North, depth = 6.395 km. Unique identifier: us7000qe0t. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qe0t. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.395 km (4 miles).

Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Romana, San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 28 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.7867° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0566° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.395 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28 km ENE of Miches, 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	2025-07-20 11:01:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-21 08:46:29	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	129	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.445	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	163	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000qe0t	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qe0t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qe0t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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