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Minor earthquake 2.91 mag, 57 km SSW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 17.908S, -68.8301WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Exact location of earthquake, -68.8301° West, 17.908° North, depth 83 km. Unique identifier: pr2018186007. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018186007. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 83 km (52 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 05/07/18 / 2018-07-05 13:13:38 / July 5, 2018 @ 1:13 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 08:13:38 / 8:13 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaymate, San Rafael del Yuma, La Romana (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. 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: 57 km SSW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.8301° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.908° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km SSW 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 2018-07-05 13:13:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-05 13:37:03 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 130 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7539 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 242 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 pr2018186007 Id of event.
Event Code 2018186007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018186007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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