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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 17.8391S, -68.5838WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Global time and date of event 25/12/18 / 2018-12-25 04:16:55 / December 25, 2018 @ 4:16 am UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:16:55 / 11:16 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2018359005. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018359005. The epicenter was at a depth of 75 km (47 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -68.5838 West, latitude 17.8391 North, depth = 75 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Romana, San Rafael del Yuma. Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 59 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.5838° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8391° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km 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 2018-12-25 04:16:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-25 10:12:44 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 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7045 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 238 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 pr2018359005 Id of event.
Event Code 2018359005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018359005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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