Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 145 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic (90 miles). The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:19:56 / 9:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -68.4434° West, 17.0755° North, depth 7 km. Unique identifier: pr16140001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16140001. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/05/16 / 2016-05-19 02:19:56 / May 19, 2016 @ 2:19 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 145 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.4434° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.0755° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	145km 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	2016-05-19 02:19:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-19 04:57:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	199	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	1.57295006	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	262.8	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	pr16140001	Id of event.
Event Code	16140001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16140001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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