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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on August 31, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9039S, -68.0358WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 80 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic (50 miles) on Saturday. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:16:47 / 9:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.0358 West, latitude 17.9039 North, depth = 35 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/08/24 / 2024-08-31 21:16:47 / August 31, 2024 @ 9:16 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000nnxa. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nnxa. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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. 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: 80 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0358° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9039° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80 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 2024-08-31 21:16:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-31 21:31:13 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 188 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.69 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us6000nnxa Id of event.
Event Code 6000nnxa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nnxa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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