A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/09/25 / 2025-09-19 03:22:04 / September 19, 2025 @ 3:22 am. Unique identifier: us7000qx6y. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qx6y. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 103.867 km (65 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -68.4481° West, latitude 18.2072° North, depth = 103.867 km. The temblor was detected at 03:22:04 / 3:22 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaymate, La Romana, Otra Banda. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 25 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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