A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: pr2025003000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2025003000. Exact location, longitude -68.44° West, latitude 18.0815° North, depth = 55 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/01/25 / 2025-01-03 12:55:58 / January 3, 2025 @ 12:55 pm. The temblor was detected at 12:55:58 / 12:55 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaymate, La Romana, Otra Banda (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 37 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.
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