Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Exact location of earthquake, -68.517° West, 18.298° North, depth 66 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/10/16 / 2016-10-06 19:48:15 / October 6, 2016 @ 7:48 pm. The temblor was reported at 15:48:15 / 3:48 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr16280006. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16280006. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate, La Romana. Nearby 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 three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 13 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.517° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.298° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	66 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km 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	2016-10-06 19:48:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-06 20:27:42	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	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.24973165	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	198	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	pr16280006	Id of event.
Event Code	16280006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16280006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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