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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near San Rafael del Yuma in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.2556S, -68.7656WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma in Dominican Republic. Unique identifier: pr2018079004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018079004. Exact location, longitude -68.7656° West, latitude 18.2556° North, depth = 147 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 147 km (91 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:44:40 / 7:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/03/18 / 2018-03-20 23:44:40 / March 20, 2018 @ 11:44 pm.

Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hato Mayor del Rey, Quisqueya, Santa Cruz de El Seibo. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 21 km SSW of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.7656° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2556° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 147 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SSW of San Rafael del 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 2018-03-20 23:44:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-21 03:58:07 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 129 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.463 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 pr2018079004 Id of event.
Event Code 2018079004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018079004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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