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Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 17.8787S, -68.2239WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 80 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 06/09/15 / 2015-09-06 20:58:30 / September 6, 2015 @ 8:58 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr15249029. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15249029. The temblor was detected at 15:58:30 / 3:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 80 km, -68.2239° West, 17.8787° North.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

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 five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 68 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.2239° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8787° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km 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 2015-09-06 20:58:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-06 21:50:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 211 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.86687425 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 320.4 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 pr15249029 Id of event.
Event Code 15249029 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15249029, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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