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Minor earthquake, 3.33 mag has occurred near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on December 11, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.7135S, -68.198666666667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) was reported 85 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic (53 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.198666666667 West, latitude 17.7135 North, depth = 65.43 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 65.43 km (41 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/12/24 / 2024-12-11 18:38:47 / December 11, 2024 @ 6:38 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71468318. Id of event: pr71468318. The 3.33-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:38:47 / 6:38 pm (local time epicenter).

Every 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 two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 85 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.33 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.198666666667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7135° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85 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 2024-12-11 18:38:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-11 18:49:12 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 171 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8153 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 272 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 pr71468318 Id of event.
Event Code 71468318 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71468318, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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