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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 41 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Wednesday. Event id: pr17088009. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17088009. The epicenter was at a depth of 135 km (84 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/03/17 / 2017-03-29 20:04:43 / March 29, 2017 @ 8:04 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.505 West, latitude 18.0186 North, depth = 135 km. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:04:43 / 3:04 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guaymate, Otra Banda, Salvaleón de Higüey (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 41 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.505° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0186° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	135 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41km 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	2017-03-29 20:04:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-30 00:06:54	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	178	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.50485319	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	280.8	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	pr17088009	Id of event.
Event Code	17088009	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr17088009,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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