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Minor earthquake, 3.52 mag was detected near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.52 (ml/mb) strikes 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 03:44:46 / 3:44 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 139 km (86 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr2019039008. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019039008. Exact location of earthquake, -68.7216° West, 18.026° North, depth 139 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/02/19 / 2019-02-08 07:44:46 / February 8, 2019 @ 7:44 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Pedro de Macorís, Punta Cana, Otra Banda (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 40 km SSW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.52 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.7216° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.026° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	139 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40km SSW 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	2019-02-08 07:44:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-08 15:04:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	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	191	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	0.5948	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	302	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	pr2019039008	Id of event.
Event Code	2019039008	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019039008,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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