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

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Exact location of event, longitude -68.5479 West, latitude 17.7797 North, depth = 15.583 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.583 km (10 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/01/25 / 2025-01-21 02:51:14 / January 21, 2025 @ 2:51 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000plcs. Event ids that are associated: us6000plcs. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:51:14 / 2:51 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 66 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.5479° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.7797° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.583 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66 km S 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	2025-01-21 02:51:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-21 03:05:53	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	138	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.748	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	110	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000plcs	Id of event.
Event Code	6000plcs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000plcs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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