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Minor earthquake: M3.84 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.84 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2024251000. Unique identifier: pr2024251000. The 3.84-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:42:31 / 4:42 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79 km (49 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/09/24 / 2024-09-07 04:42:31 / September 7, 2024 @ 4:42 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.4816 West, latitude 18.0585 North, depth = 79 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guaymate, Otra Banda, Salvaleón de Higüey (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 37 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.84 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.4816° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0585° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	79 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37 km SSE 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	2024-09-07 04:42:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-07 08:43:19	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	227	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4663	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	218	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	pr2024251000	Id of event.
Event Code	2024251000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2024251000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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