Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Miches in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude -68.7752 West, latitude 19.2465 North, depth = 2.418 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.418 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us6000qzid. Event ids that are associated: us6000qzid. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:12:26 / 7:12 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 09/08/25 / 2025-08-09 19:12:26 / August 9, 2025 @ 7:12 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaymate, Hato Mayor del Rey, Salvaleón de Higüey. Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 40 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.7752° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2465° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.418 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40 km NE 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	2025-08-09 19:12:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-31 20:50:51	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	0.392	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	192	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	us6000qzid	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qzid	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qzid,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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