Minor earthquake, 3.31 mag has occurred near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) was reported 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Saturday. Event id: pr2020102019. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020102019. Exact location of event, longitude -68.2588 West, latitude 17.862 North, depth = 38 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/04/20 / 2020-04-11 22:08:29 / April 11, 2020 @ 10:08 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 38 km (24 miles). The temblor was reported at 17:08:29 / 5:08 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.31 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.2588° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.862° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	68km 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	2020-04-11 22:08:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-12 00:27:11	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	169	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	0.9385	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	246	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	pr2020102019	Id of event.
Event Code	2020102019	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020102019,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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