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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 60 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 17.8828S, -68.3766WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Id of earthquake: pr2019189002. Event ids that are associated: pr2019189002. Exact location of event, depth 98 km, -68.3766° West, 17.8828° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 04:52:41 / July 8, 2019 @ 4:52 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 98 km (61 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:52:41 / 11:52 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (43 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 60 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.3766° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8828° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km 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 2019-07-08 04:52:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-08 07:23:16 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 129 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.0281 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 332 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 pr2019189002 Id of event.
Event Code 2019189002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019189002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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