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Minor earthquake, 3.08 mag strikes near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.0025S, -68.1718WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The 3.08-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:48:23 / 1:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/12/18 / 2018-12-09 18:48:23 / December 9, 2018 @ 6:48 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018343005. Id of event: pr2018343005. Exact location, longitude -68.1718° West, latitude 18.0025° North, depth = 61 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 61 km (38 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 62 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.08 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.1718° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0025° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km 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 2018-12-09 18:48:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-09 19:51:45 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 146 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5527 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 248 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 pr2018343005 Id of event.
Event Code 2018343005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018343005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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