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Minor earthquake: M3.71 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.71 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.5033 West, latitude 18.1338 North, depth = 82 km. The 3.71-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:40:08 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 82 km (51 miles). Unique identifier: pr2024306001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2024306001. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/11/24 / 2024-11-01 23:40:08 / November 1, 2024 @ 11:40 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaymate, Otra Banda, La Romana (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 29 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.71 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.5033° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.1338° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	82 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29 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	2024-11-01 23:40:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-02 00:15:54	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	212	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.3995	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.43 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	213	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	pr2024306001	Id of event.
Event Code	2024306001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2024306001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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