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Minor earthquake, 3.62 mag was detected near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.62 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 115 km (71 miles). Global time and date of event 23/11/17 / 2017-11-23 09:00:38 / November 23, 2017 @ 9:00 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 115 km, -68.3378° West, 18.0986° North. Id of earthquake: pr2017327000. Event ids that are associated: pr2017327000. The 3.62-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:00:38 / 4:00 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Romana, Otra Banda, Salvaleón de Higüey. Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 42 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.62 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.3378° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0986° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	115 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42km 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	2017-11-23 09:00:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-23 12:03:10	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	202	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	6	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.905	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	336	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	pr2017327000	Id of event.
Event Code	2017327000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017327000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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