Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, -68.5206° West, 18.2936° North, depth 102.291 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rl6s. Unique identifier: us6000rl6s. The temblor was detected at 13:23:50 / 1:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/11/25 / 2025-11-03 13:23:50 / November 3, 2025 @ 1:23 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 102.291 km (64 miles).

Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate, La Romana. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.5206° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.2936° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	102.291 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km SE 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	2025-11-03 13:23:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-03 15:20:39	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.256	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	288	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	us6000rl6s	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rl6s	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rl6s,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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