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Minor earthquake, 3.28 mag has occurred near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) was reported 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/04/18 / 2018-04-26 23:22:28 / April 26, 2018 @ 11:22 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 87 km (54 miles). The temblor was detected at 18:22:28 / 6:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -68.513° West, latitude 18.2215° North, depth = 87 km. Unique identifier: pr2018116004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018116004, us1000dt40.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (33 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate, La Romana (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 nine, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 43 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.28 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.513° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.2215° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	87 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km SSE 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	2018-04-26 23:22:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-26 23:47:37	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	166	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3206	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	166	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	pr2018116004	Id of event.
Event Code	2018116004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018116004,us1000dt40,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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