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

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 74.15 km (46 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us100068y9. Unique identifier: us100068y9. Exact location, longitude -68.6143° West, latitude 18.2926° North, depth = 74.15 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:52:29 / 8:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 31/07/16 / 2016-07-31 00:52:29 / July 31, 2016 @ 12:52 am UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Pedro de Macorís, Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.6143° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.2926° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	74.15 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km 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 00:52:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-25 00:58:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	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	158	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.312	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	202	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	us100068y9	Id of event.
Event Code	100068y9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100068y9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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