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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on January 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2663S, -68.6453WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/01/16 / 2016-01-01 16:57:49 / January 1, 2016 @ 4:57 pm. Exact location of event, depth 144 km, -68.6453° West, 18.2663° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 144 km (89 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16001005. Unique identifier: pr16001005. The temblor was picked up at 12:57:49 / 12:57 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Pedro de Macorís, Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 12 km SSW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6453° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2663° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 144 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km 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 2016-01-01 16:57:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-01 20:52:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 188 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.35034296 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 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 pr16001005 Id of event.
Event Code 16001005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16001005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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