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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag has occurred near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on February 3, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9435S, -68.3158WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Exact location, longitude -68.3158° West, latitude 17.9435° North, depth = 104 km. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:44:20 / 5:44 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 104 km (65 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/02/19 / 2019-02-02 22:44:20 / February 2, 2019 @ 10:44 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr2019033014. Event ids that are associated: pr2019033014.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana, San Rafael del Yuma. Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 57 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.3158° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9435° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 104 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km 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 2019-02-02 22:44:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-02 23:50:12 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 127 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5742 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 222 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 pr2019033014 Id of event.
Event Code 2019033014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019033014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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