Minor earthquake, 3.15 mag was detected near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/09/20 / 2020-09-26 11:37:32 / September 26, 2020 @ 11:37 am. The 3.15-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:37:32 / 11:37 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 141 km (88 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.7448 West, latitude 18.2013 North, depth = 141 km. Event id: pr2020270018. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c1l8, pr2020270018.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quisqueya, Santa Cruz de El Seibo, San Pedro de Macorís. Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 56 km (34 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 24 km SW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

Boca de Yuma Dominican Republic La Romana Punta Cana Quisqueya Salvaleon de Higuey San Pedro de Macoris Santa Cruz de El Seibo

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.7448° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.2013° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	141 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24 km SW 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	2020-09-26 11:37:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-26 15:46:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	154	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	,us,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4793	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	187	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	pr2020270018	Id of event.
Event Code	2020270018	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c1l8,pr2020270018,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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