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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, -68.574° West, 18.2201° North, depth 78 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 78 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/02/17 / 2017-02-17 12:25:41 / February 17, 2017 @ 12:25 pm. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:25:41 / 8:25 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr17048002. Event ids that are associated: pr17048002.

Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Pedro de Macorís, Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 17 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.574° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.2201° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km SSE 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	2017-02-17 12:25:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-17 12:51:20	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	188	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.34495307	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	291.6	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	pr17048002	Id of event.
Event Code	17048002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr17048002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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