Minor earthquake, 3.42 mag has occurred near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018317008. Id of event: pr2018317008. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/11/18 / 2018-11-13 22:52:02 / November 13, 2018 @ 10:52 pm. Exact location, longitude -68.5411° West, latitude 17.9683° North, depth = 135 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 135 km (84 miles). The temblor was reported at 17:52:02 / 5:52 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guaymate, Otra Banda, Salvaleón de Higüey. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Event epicenter was 68 km (43 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 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 two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 45 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.42 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.5411° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9683° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	135 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	45km S 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	2018-11-13 22:52:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-13 23:24:39	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	180	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5685	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	286	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	pr2018317008	Id of event.
Event Code	2018317008	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018317008,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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