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Minor earthquake: M3.21 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 17.876S, -68.6121WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The temblor was detected at 22:59:34 / 10:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -68.6121° West, latitude 17.876° North, depth = 60 km. Global time and date of event 13/11/18 / 2018-11-13 03:59:34 / November 13, 2018 @ 3:59 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pr2018317000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018317000. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 60 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Romana, San Rafael del Yuma. Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 twenty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 55 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.21 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6121° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.876° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km 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 03:59:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-13 09:18:01 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 159 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6783 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 235 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 pr2018317000 Id of event.
Event Code 2018317000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018317000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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