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Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag was detected near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on January 19, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9486S, -68.3431WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) strikes 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 73 km (45 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/01/19 / 2019-01-19 08:38:06 / January 19, 2019 @ 8:38 am. Event id: pr2019019010. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019019010. The temblor was detected at 03:38:06 / 3:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 73 km, -68.3431° West, 17.9486° North.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 55 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.3431° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9486° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km SSE 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 2019-01-19 08:38:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-19 13:38:24 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 135 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5666 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 268 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 pr2019019010 Id of event.
Event Code 2019019010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019019010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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