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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on August 14, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8645S, -68.5695WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/08/16 / 2016-08-14 00:06:29 / August 14, 2016 @ 12:06 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 78 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.5695 West, latitude 17.8645 North, depth = 78 km. The temblor was reported at 19:06:29 / 7:06 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr16227000. Unique identifier: pr16227000.

Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Romana, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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 S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.5695° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8645° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km 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 2016-08-14 00:06:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-14 04:20:23 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.66924489 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 237.6 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 pr16227000 Id of event.
Event Code 16227000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16227000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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