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Minor earthquake: M3.16 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.3241S, -68.4893WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, -68.4893° West, 18.3241° North, depth 110 km. Unique identifier: pr2018105002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018105002. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/04/18 / 2018-04-15 07:54:46 / April 15, 2018 @ 7:54 am UTC/GMT. The 3.16-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:54:46 / 3:54 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 110 km (68 miles).

Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate, La Romana.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km ESE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4893° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.3241° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km ESE 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 2018-04-15 07:54:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-15 12:26:45 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 154 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.0119 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 pr2018105002 Id of event.
Event Code 2018105002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018105002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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