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Minor earthquake, 3.38 mag has occurred near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on July 8, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8486S, -68.4211WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The temblor was detected at 03:34:40 / 3:34 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr2018189004. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018189004. Exact location of earthquake, -68.4211° West, 17.8486° North, depth 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/07/18 / 2018-07-08 08:34:40 / July 8, 2018 @ 8:34 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana, San Rafael del Yuma. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 61 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.38 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4211° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8486° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km 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 2018-07-08 08:34:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-08 12:02:15 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 176 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6665 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 232 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 pr2018189004 Id of event.
Event Code 2018189004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018189004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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