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Minor earthquake 3.29 mag, 47 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Event id: pr2018136001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018136001. Global time and date of event 16/05/18 / 2018-05-16 00:57:31 / May 16, 2018 @ 12:57 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -68.2971° West, 18.0715° North, depth 110 km. The temblor was detected at 19:57:31 / 7:57 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 110 km (68 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Romana, Otra Banda, Salvaleón de Higüey (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

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 twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 47 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.29 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.2971° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0715° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	110 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47km 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	2018-05-16 00:57:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-16 05:06:41	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	167	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	6	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4504	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	256	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	pr2018136001	Id of event.
Event Code	2018136001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018136001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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