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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 66 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on September 30, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.7855S, -68.5125WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 30/09/17 / 2017-09-30 20:33:47 / September 30, 2017 @ 8:33 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000ax9h. Event ids that are associated: us2000ax9h. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -68.5125° West, 17.7855° North. The temblor was detected at 15:33:47 / 3:33 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Rafael del Yuma. Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Close 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 66 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.5125° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7855° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km S 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 2017-09-30 20:33:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-30 21:50:16 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 188 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.37 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000ax9h Id of event.
Event Code 2000ax9h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ax9h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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