Minor earthquake 3.32 mag, 54 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) was reported 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Monday. Id of earthquake: pr71502303. Event ids that are associated: pr71502303. Global time and date of event 15/12/25 / 2025-12-15 17:10:32 / December 15, 2025 @ 5:10 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 20.09 km, -68.499° West, 17.901833333333° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.09 km (12 miles). The temblor was detected at 17:10:32 / 5:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Romana, Punta Cana, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 54 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.32 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.499° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.901833333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.09 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	54 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	2025-12-15 17:10:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-15 17:33:43	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	170	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6196	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	283	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	pr71502303	Id of event.
Event Code	71502303	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71502303,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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