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Minor earthquake 3.37 mag, 62 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 17.8795S, -68.3391WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.37 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018206006. Id of event: pr2018206006. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 100 km (62 miles). The temblor was detected at 15:38:56 / 3:38 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 25/07/18 / 2018-07-25 20:38:56 / July 25, 2018 @ 8:38 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -68.3391 West, latitude 17.8795 North, depth = 100 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana, San Rafael del Yuma. The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 62 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.37 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.3391° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8795° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km 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 2018-07-25 20:38:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-26 01:16:13 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 175 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6358 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 347 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 pr2018206006 Id of event.
Event Code 2018206006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018206006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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