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Minor earthquake, 3.28 mag was detected near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.0403S, -68.4956WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/05/18 / 2018-05-18 08:04:52 / May 18, 2018 @ 8:04 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -68.4956° West, latitude 18.0403° North, depth = 89 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018138004, us1000e7vw. Id of event: pr2018138004. The temblor was picked up at 04:04:52 / 4:04 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 89 km (55 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaymate, Otra Banda, Salvaleón de Higüey (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 31 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.28 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4956° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0403° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km 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 2018-05-18 08:04:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-18 08:35:37 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 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4872 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 220 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 pr2018138004 Id of event.
Event Code 2018138004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018138004,us1000e7vw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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