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Minor earthquake: M3.61 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.3286S, -68.347WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.61 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/12/20 / 2020-12-27 11:45:50 / December 27, 2020 @ 11:45 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pr2020362006. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020362006. The 3.61-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:45:50 / 11:45 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 111 km (69 miles). Exact location of event, depth 111 km, -68.347° West, 18.3286° North.

Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaymate, La Romana, Salvaleón de Higüey.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 28 km ESE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.61 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.347° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.3286° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 111 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km ESE 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 2020-12-27 11:45:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-27 12:53:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 200 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1885 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 pr2020362006 Id of event.
Event Code 2020362006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020362006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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