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Minor earthquake, 3.47 mag has occurred near La Romana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.489S, -68.867WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.47 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from La Romana in Dominican Republic. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/05/18 / 2018-05-21 09:20:52 / May 21, 2018 @ 9:20 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 167 km (104 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.867 West, latitude 18.489 North, depth = 167 km. The 3.47-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:20:52 / 5:20 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2018141006. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018141006.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Boca Chica, El Valle, Los Llanos. Epicenter of the earthquake was 45 km (28 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km ENE of La Romana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.47 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.867° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.489° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 167 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km ENE of La Romana, 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 2018-05-21 09:20:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-21 12:57:21 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 185 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 1.8225 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 pr2018141006 Id of event.
Event Code 2018141006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018141006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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