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Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 17.857S, -68.7945WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Id of earthquake: pr15355003. Event ids that are associated: pr15355003. The temblor was picked up at 04:15:11 / 4:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.7945 West, latitude 17.857 North, depth = 104 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/12/15 / 2015-12-21 09:15:11 / December 21, 2015 @ 9:15 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 104 km (65 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Romana, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 60 km SSW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.7945° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.857° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 104 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km SSW 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 2015-12-21 09:15:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-21 12:18:49 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 158 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.76177136 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 302.4 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 pr15355003 Id of event.
Event Code 15355003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15355003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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