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Minor earthquake: M2.88 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.1616S, -68.4313WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) strikes 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 78 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019247005. Id of event: pr2019247005. The temblor was detected at 11:27:01 / 11:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -68.4313° West, 18.1616° North, depth 78 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/09/19 / 2019-09-04 15:27:01 / September 4, 2019 @ 3:27 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaymate, La Romana, Otra Banda (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifteen 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. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 30 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4313° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1616° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km SE 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 2019-09-04 15:27:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-04 15:49:39 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 128 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9778 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 227 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 pr2019247005 Id of event.
Event Code 2019247005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019247005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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