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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 53 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.009S, -68.2806WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/08/16 / 2016-08-18 17:21:28 / August 18, 2016 @ 5:21 pm. Unique identifier: pr16231012. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16231012. The temblor was picked up at 12:21:28 / 12:21 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 39 km (24 miles). Exact location, longitude -68.2806° West, latitude 18.009° North, depth = 39 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Otra Banda, Salvaleón de Higüey, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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. 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: 53 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.2806° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.009° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km 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 2016-08-18 17:21:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-18 17:43:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 178 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5111414 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 216 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 pr16231012 Id of event.
Event Code 16231012 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16231012, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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