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

Posted by admin on August 8, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.6285S, -68.4451WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 84 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic (52 miles). The 3.42-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:46:21 / 10:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.4451 West, latitude 17.6285 North, depth = 52 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/08/18 / 2018-08-08 03:46:21 / August 8, 2018 @ 3:46 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 52 km (32 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2018220003. Event ids that are associated: pr2018220003.

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.42 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4451° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.6285° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km 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 2018-08-08 03:46:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-08 06:51:26 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.3879 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 339 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 pr2018220003 Id of event.
Event Code 2018220003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018220003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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