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Minor earthquake 2.87 mag, 97 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 17.5271S, -68.384WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was reported 97 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic (60 miles) on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/02/19 / 2019-02-28 05:56:19 / February 28, 2019 @ 5:56 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -68.384° West, latitude 17.5271° North, depth = 63 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 63 km (39 miles). The 2.87-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:56:19 / 12:56 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019059006. Unique identifier: pr2019059006.

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 97 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.384° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.5271° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97km 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 2019-02-28 05:56:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-28 08:02:50 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9867 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 247 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 pr2019059006 Id of event.
Event Code 2019059006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019059006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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