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Minor earthquake: M2.94 quake has struck near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on December 12, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9623S, -68.3128WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The epicenter was at a depth of 98 km (61 miles). The temblor was reported at 23:20:29 / 11:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/12/18 / 2018-12-12 04:20:29 / December 12, 2018 @ 4:20 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018346000. Id of event: pr2018346000. Exact location of event, depth 98 km, -68.3128° West, 17.9623° North.

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 55 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.3128° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9623° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km 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 2018-12-12 04:20:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-12 05:50:19 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 133 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5558 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 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 pr2018346000 Id of event.
Event Code 2018346000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018346000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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