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Minor earthquake 3.18 mag, 20 km E of Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.7903S, -68.8488WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo in Dominican Republic on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 118 km (73 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -68.8488° West, latitude 18.7903° North, depth = 118 km. The temblor was detected at 10:55:34 / 10:55 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/01/19 / 2019-01-20 14:55:34 / January 20, 2019 @ 2:55 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019020006. Id of event: pr2019020006.

Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Los Llanos, Samaná, Quisqueya (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 20 km E of Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.18 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.8488° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7903° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km E of Santa Cruz de El Seibo, 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 2019-01-20 14:55:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-20 15:48:31 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 156 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.543 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190 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 pr2019020006 Id of event.
Event Code 2019020006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019020006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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