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Minor earthquake 3.32 mag, 15 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The 3.32-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:03:45 / 8:03 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 117 km (73 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/08/17 / 2017-08-10 00:03:45 / August 10, 2017 @ 12:03 am. Unique identifier: pr2017222000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2017222000. Exact location of event, depth 117 km, -68.5726° West, 18.2458° North.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Pedro de Macorís, Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 15 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.32 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.5726° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.2458° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	117 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km 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	2017-08-10 00:03:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-10 03:56:01	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	170	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3293	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	294	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	pr2017222000	Id of event.
Event Code	2017222000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017222000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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