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Minor earthquake: M3.96 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

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Earthquake location 18.1626S, -68.6491WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.96 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 151 km (94 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -68.6491° West, latitude 18.1626° North, depth = 151 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/04/24 / 2024-04-30 07:11:31 / April 30, 2024 @ 7:11 am. The temblor was picked up at 07:11:31 / 7:11 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2024121000. Event ids that are associated: us6000mv4t, pr2024121000. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, San Pedro de Macorís, Guaymate.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 24 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6491° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1626° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 151 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km S 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 2024-04-30 07:11:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-30 13:22:05 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 241 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4417 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 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 md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2024121000 Id of event.
Event Code 2024121000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mv4t,pr2024121000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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