A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic. Exact location of earthquake, -68.6272° West, 19.1893° North, depth 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/10/25 / 2025-10-12 13:35:19 / October 12, 2025 @ 1:35 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us6000rgqq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rgqq. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:35:19 / 1:35 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, El Valle, Hato Mayor del Rey (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop). Close 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 eight, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 49 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic.

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