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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on December 20, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0662S, -68.2819WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15354002. Unique identifier: pr15354002. The epicenter was at a depth of 78 km (48 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:01:46 / 2:01 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/12/15 / 2015-12-20 07:01:46 / December 20, 2015 @ 7:01 am. Exact location, longitude -68.2819° West, latitude 18.0662° North, depth = 78 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Otra Banda, Salvaleón de Higüey, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 48 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.2819° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0662° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km 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 2015-12-20 07:01:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-20 12:27:42 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 129 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.45364922 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 252 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 pr15354002 Id of event.
Event Code 15354002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15354002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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