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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 38 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.0359S, -68.5295WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Exact location of earthquake, -68.5295° West, 18.0359° North, depth 81 km. The temblor was detected at 05:54:27 / 5:54 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr16232003. Unique identifier: pr16232003. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/08/16 / 2016-08-19 09:54:27 / August 19, 2016 @ 9:54 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 81 km (50 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guaymate, Otra Banda, Salvaleón de Higüey.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 38 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.5295° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0359° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km SSE 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 2016-08-19 09:54:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-19 12:46:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 138 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.49587004 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219.6 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 pr16232003 Id of event.
Event Code 16232003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16232003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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