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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on August 24, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0181S, -68.0989WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Wednesday. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:01:36 / 1:01 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.0989 West, latitude 18.0181 North, depth = 79 km. Global time and date of event 24/08/16 / 2016-08-24 18:01:36 / August 24, 2016 @ 6:01 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16237005. Id of event: pr16237005.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-one 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. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 67 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0989° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0181° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km 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 2016-08-24 18:01:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-24 19:57:20 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 138 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.56144705 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 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 pr16237005 Id of event.
Event Code 16237005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16237005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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