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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.0956S, -68.7478WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Exact location of event, depth 169 km, -68.7478° West, 18.0956° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/06/16 / 2016-06-17 02:22:13 / June 17, 2016 @ 2:22 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 22:22:13 / 10:22 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr16169003. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16169003. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 169 km (105 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Quisqueya (c. 17 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quisqueya, Santa Cruz de El Seibo, San Pedro de Macorís (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km SSW 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 -68.7478° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0956° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 169 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km 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 2016-06-17 02:22:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-17 04:38:33 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 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.23787846 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 342 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 pr16169003 Id of event.
Event Code 16169003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16169003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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