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Minor earthquake, 3.39 mag was detected near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.2088S, -68.7503WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.39 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, -68.7503° West, 18.2088° North, depth 180 km. Event id: pr2017163002. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017163002. The 3.39-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:53:59 / 10:53 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 180 km (112 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/06/17 / 2017-06-12 14:53:59 / June 12, 2017 @ 2:53 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hato Mayor del Rey, Quisqueya, Santa Cruz de El Seibo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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: 23 km SW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.39 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.7503° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2088° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 180 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km SW 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 2017-06-12 14:53:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-14 02:12:18 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 177 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4787 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 311 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 pr2017163002 Id of event.
Event Code 2017163002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017163002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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