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Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag strikes near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.2586S, -68.724WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude -68.724 West, latitude 18.2586 North, depth = 143 km. Event id: pr2018323011. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018323011. The temblor was picked up at 03:10:24 / 3:10 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 143 km (89 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/11/18 / 2018-11-19 07:10:24 / November 19, 2018 @ 7:10 am UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, San Pedro de Macorís, Punta Cana. Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-seven 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. 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: 17 km SW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.724° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2586° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 143 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km SW 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 2018-11-19 07:10:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-19 11:06:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 121 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4273 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 212 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 pr2018323011 Id of event.
Event Code 2018323011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018323011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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