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Minor earthquake: M2.93 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.08S, -68.4848WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) was reported 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/11/19 / 2019-11-20 23:19:50 / November 20, 2019 @ 11:19 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.93-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:19:50 / 7:19 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2019324028. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019324028. Exact location of event, depth 49 km, -68.4848° West, 18.08° North.

Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaymate, Otra Banda, La Romana (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 35 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4848° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.08° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km 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 2019-11-20 23:19:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-21 09:01:15 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 132 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.3771 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 218 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 pr2019324028 Id of event.
Event Code 2019324028 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019324028, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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