Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 80 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 06/09/15 / 2015-09-06 20:58:30 / September 6, 2015 @ 8:58 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr15249029. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15249029. The temblor was detected at 15:58:30 / 3:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 80 km, -68.2239° West, 17.8787° North.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

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 five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 68 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.2239° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.8787° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	80 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	68km 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	2015-09-06 20:58:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-06 21:50:28	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	211	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.86687425	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	320.4	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	pr15249029	Id of event.
Event Code	15249029	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15249029,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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