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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 17.8266S, -68.1303WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 79 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic (49 miles). Global time and date of event 04/06/18 / 2018-06-04 08:13:17 / June 4, 2018 @ 8:13 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 03:13:17 / 3:13 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.1303 West, latitude 17.8266 North, depth = 49 km. Event id: pr2018155004. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018155004.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 79 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.1303° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8266° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km 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 2018-06-04 08:13:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-04 12:13:35 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 121 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.0364 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 346 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 pr2018155004 Id of event.
Event Code 2018155004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018155004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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