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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 36 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic

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Earthquake location 18.1869S, -68.3261WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Global time and date of event 01/08/24 / 2024-08-01 11:02:47 / August 1, 2024 @ 11:02 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000nhbl. Event ids that are associated: us6000nhbl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -68.3261° West, latitude 18.1869° North, depth = 111.291 km. The temblor was picked up at 11:02:47 / 11:02 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 111.291 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guaymate, La Romana, Otra Banda. Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (46 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 36 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 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.3261° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1869° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 111.291 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 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 2024-08-01 11:02:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-01 11:20:50 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 284 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.33 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000nhbl Id of event.
Event Code 6000nhbl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nhbl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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