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Minor earthquake, 3.78 mag was detected near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on December 5, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2318S, -68.4658WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.78 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Friday. The 3.78-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:28:49 / 10:28 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2025339002. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000rfr6, pr2025339002. Exact location, longitude -68.4658° West, latitude 18.2318° North, depth = 88 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 88 km (55 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/12/25 / 2025-12-05 10:28:49 / December 5, 2025 @ 10:28 am.

Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate, La Romana (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 58 km (36 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 22 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.78 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4658° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2318° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22 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 2025-12-05 10:28:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-05 11:00:37 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 220 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2945 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 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 pr2025339002 Id of event.
Event Code 2025339002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000rfr6,pr2025339002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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