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Minor earthquake 3.61 mag, 24 km SSW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on December 25, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.1886S, -68.727WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.61 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The 3.61-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:39:48 / 9:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/12/18 / 2018-12-25 13:39:48 / December 25, 2018 @ 1:39 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -68.727° West, latitude 18.1886° North, depth = 106 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018359016. Unique identifier: pr2018359016. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 106 km (66 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hato Mayor del Rey, Quisqueya, Santa Cruz de El Seibo. The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 24 km SSW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.61 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.727° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1886° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 106 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SSW 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 2018-12-25 13:39:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-25 14:16:35 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 200 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4746 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 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 pr2018359016 Id of event.
Event Code 2018359016 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018359016, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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