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Minor earthquake, 3.42 mag strikes near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 17.7176S, -68.3351WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 78 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic (48 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 82 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 22/10/19 / 2019-10-22 11:58:44 / October 22, 2019 @ 11:58 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -68.3351 West, latitude 17.7176 North, depth = 82 km. Id of earthquake: pr2019295012. Event ids that are associated: pr2019295012. The temblor was reported at 06:58:44 / 6:58 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. 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: 78 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.42 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.3351° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7176° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km 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 2019-10-22 11:58:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-22 17:11:08 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 180 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.259 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 349 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 pr2019295012 Id of event.
Event Code 2019295012 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019295012, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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