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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on February 18, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0085S, -68.1263WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.1263 West, latitude 18.0085 North, depth = 184.31 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dil6. Id of event: us6000dil6. The temblor was picked up at 06:09:39 / 6:09 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 184.31 km (115 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/02/21 / 2021-02-18 06:09:39 / February 18, 2021 @ 6:09 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana. Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

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 fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 65 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.1263° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0085° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 184.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65 km 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 2021-02-18 06:09:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-18 06:38:15 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 178 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.558 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000dil6 Id of event.
Event Code 6000dil6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dil6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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