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Minor earthquake: M3.54 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 17.4281S, -68.6603WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.54 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 105 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic (65 miles). Global time and date of event 19/09/17 / 2017-09-19 04:10:57 / September 19, 2017 @ 4:10 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -68.6603 West, latitude 17.4281 North, depth = 35 km. Unique identifier: pr2017262000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2017262000. The temblor was detected at 23:10:57 / 11:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 105 km S 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 3.54 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6603° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.4281° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 105km S 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 2017-09-19 04:10:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-19 07:29:16 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 193 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 1.121 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 301 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 pr2017262000 Id of event.
Event Code 2017262000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017262000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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