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Minor earthquake, 3.53 mag strikes near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.2593S, -68.5523WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.53 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 85 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -68.5523° West, 18.2593° North, depth 85 km. Event id: pr2018183001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018183001. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/07/18 / 2018-07-02 03:13:22 / July 2, 2018 @ 3:13 am UTC/GMT. The 3.53-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:13:22 / 11:13 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Pedro de Macorís, Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 14 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.53 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.5523° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2593° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km 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 2018-07-02 03:13:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-02 03:44:30 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 192 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3066 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 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 pr2018183001 Id of event.
Event Code 2018183001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018183001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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