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Minor earthquake, 3.04 mag has occurred near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on March 12, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.7925S, -68.4706WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) was reported 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -68.4706 West, latitude 17.7925 North, depth = 57 km. Id of earthquake: pr2019071019. Event ids that are associated: pr2019071019. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/03/19 / 2019-03-12 16:32:10 / March 12, 2019 @ 4:32 pm. The temblor was picked up at 11:32:10 / 11:32 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 57 km (35 miles).

Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 66 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 3.04 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4706° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7925° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km 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 2019-03-12 16:32:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-12 17:32:32 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 142 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7269 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 284 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 pr2019071019 Id of event.
Event Code 2019071019 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019071019, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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