Minor earthquake 3.15 mag, 37 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/12/25 / 2025-12-07 17:14:54 / December 7, 2025 @ 5:14 pm. The 3.15-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:14:54 / 5:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -68.529166666667° West, latitude 18.044833333333° North, depth = 66.49 km. Id of earthquake: pr71501748. Event ids that are associated: pr71501748. The epicenter was at a depth of 66.49 km (41 miles).

Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaymate, Otra Banda, Salvaleón de Higüey (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 37 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.529166666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.044833333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	66.49 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37 km SSE 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	2025-12-07 17:14:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-07 17:37:32	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	153	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4879	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	221	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	pr71501748	Id of event.
Event Code	71501748	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71501748,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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