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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 17.7835S, -68.5999WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Sunday. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:48:55 / 6:48 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr16213005. Event ids that are associated: pr16213005. Exact location of earthquake, -68.5999° West, 17.7835° North, depth 80 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 80 km (50 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/07/16 / 2016-07-31 23:48:55 / July 31, 2016 @ 11:48 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 65 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.5999° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7835° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km 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 2016-07-31 23:48:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-01 04:55:02 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 148 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.75458484 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241.2 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 pr16213005 Id of event.
Event Code 16213005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16213005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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