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Minor earthquake: M3.41 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.41 (ml/mb) was reported 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -68.320666666667 West, latitude 18.0655 North, depth = 10.81 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.81 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 15:17:30 / 3:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/12/25 / 2025-12-11 15:17:30 / December 11, 2025 @ 3:17 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr71502028. Event ids that are associated: pr71502028.

Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Romana, Otra Banda, Salvaleón de Higüey (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

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 thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 46 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.41 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.320666666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0655° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.81 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46 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	2025-12-11 15:17:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-11 15:47:46	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	179	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4502	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	186	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	pr71502028	Id of event.
Event Code	71502028	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71502028,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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