Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 85 km (53 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16094002. Id of event: pr16094002. Exact location of event, depth 85 km, -68.244° West, 17.9978° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/04/16 / 2016-04-03 11:10:35 / April 3, 2016 @ 11:10 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 06:10:35 / 6:10 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.244° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9978° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	85 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	57km 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	2016-04-03 11:10:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-03 11:31:28	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	158	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	0.82195848	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	327.6	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	pr16094002	Id of event.
Event Code	16094002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16094002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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