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Minor earthquake, 3.11 mag was detected near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on July 26, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9983S, -68.0451WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Unique identifier: pr2017207005. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2017207005. The temblor was detected at 05:08:06 / 5:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/07/17 / 2017-07-26 10:08:06 / July 26, 2017 @ 10:08 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.0451 West, latitude 17.9983 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 72 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.11 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0451° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9983° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km 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 2017-07-26 10:08:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-26 15:24:34 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 149 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 0.6156 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 238 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 pr2017207005 Id of event.
Event Code 2017207005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017207005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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