Minor earthquake, 3.31 mag was detected near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) strikes 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:45:12 / 7:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.2703 West, latitude 17.961 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/05/20 / 2020-05-29 19:45:12 / May 29, 2020 @ 7:45 pm. Unique identifier: pr2020150020. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020150020.

Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 58 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.31 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.2703° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.961° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58 km 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	2020-05-29 19:45:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-29 20:41:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	169	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	0.5639	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	220	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	pr2020150020	Id of event.
Event Code	2020150020	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020150020,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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