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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag has occurred near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on August 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9745S, -68.2458WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:42:41 / 11:42 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2018216005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018216005. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.2458 West, latitude 17.9745 North, depth = 43 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43 km (27 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/08/18 / 2018-08-04 04:42:41 / August 4, 2018 @ 4:42 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana, San Rafael del Yuma. Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 58 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.2458° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9745° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km 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 2018-08-04 04:42:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-04 05:52:15 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 127 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.1366 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 345 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 pr2018216005 Id of event.
Event Code 2018216005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018216005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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