Minor earthquake: M3.81 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.81 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 122 km (76 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 23:18:23 / 11:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -68.699° West, latitude 18.075° North, depth = 122 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/09/25 / 2025-09-21 23:18:23 / September 21, 2025 @ 11:18 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2025264007. Id of event: pr2025264007.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, San Pedro de Macorís, Punta Cana. Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 six, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 34 km SSW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.699° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.075° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	122 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34 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	2025-09-21 23:18:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-21 23:40:31	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	223	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5418	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	225	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	pr2025264007	Id of event.
Event Code	2025264007	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2025264007,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

3.81 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-68.699° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

18.075° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

122 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

34 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

2025-09-21 23:18:23

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2025-09-21 23:40:31

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

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

223

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.

Horizontal Distance

0.5418

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.55 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

225

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

pr2025264007

Id of event.

Event Code

2025264007

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,pr2025264007,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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