Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/12/18 / 2018-12-17 07:29:18 / December 17, 2018 @ 7:29 am. The temblor was picked up at 02:29:18 / 2:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -68.3473° West, latitude 18.0405° North, depth = 117 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 117 km (73 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018351019. Id of event: pr2018351019.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Otra Banda, Salvaleón de Higüey, Punta Cana. Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 46 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.3473° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0405° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	117 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46km 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	2018-12-17 07:29:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-17 11:31:45	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	129	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4746	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	264	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	pr2018351019	Id of event.
Event Code	2018351019	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018351019,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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