Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag strikes near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/07/19 / 2019-07-20 23:40:27 / July 20, 2019 @ 11:40 pm. The temblor was reported at 19:40:27 / 7:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.6778 West, latitude 18.33 North, depth = 98 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 98 km (61 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2019201010. Event ids that are associated: pr2019201010.

The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Pedro de Macorís, Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-three 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. 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: 9 km SW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.82 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.6778° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.33° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	98 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km SW 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	2019-07-20 23:40:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-21 04:02:13	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	122	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	1.1998	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	342	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	pr2019201010	Id of event.
Event Code	2019201010	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019201010,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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