Minor earthquake 3.31 mag, 33 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 105 km (65 miles). Exact location of event, depth 105 km, -68.4461° West, 18.1225° North. Unique identifier: pr2018263004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018263004. The temblor was detected at 08:05:15 / 8:05 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 20/09/18 / 2018-09-20 13:05:15 / September 20, 2018 @ 1:05 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (40 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaymate, La Romana, Otra Banda (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 nine, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 33 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.31 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.4461° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.1225° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	105 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km 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	2018-09-20 13:05:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-20 16:42:27	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	169	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3967	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	273	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	pr2018263004	Id of event.
Event Code	2018263004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018263004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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