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Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag strikes near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 17.9686S, -68.0521WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) strikes 74 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic (46 miles) on Saturday. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:55:54 / 5:55 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2019145008. Event ids that are associated: pr2019145008. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 51 km (32 miles). Global time and date of event 25/05/19 / 2019-05-25 10:55:54 / May 25, 2019 @ 10:55 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -68.0521° West, latitude 17.9686° North, depth = 51 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 74 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0521° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9686° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km 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 2019-05-25 10:55:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-25 13:10:17 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 123 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.708 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 215 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 pr2019145008 Id of event.
Event Code 2019145008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019145008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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