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Minor earthquake, 3.27 mag strikes near Guaymate in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.522S, -68.934WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Guaymate in Dominican Republic on Sunday. The 3.27-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:28:30 / 8:28 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 123 km (76 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2019028000. Event ids that are associated: pr2019028000. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/01/19 / 2019-01-28 00:28:30 / January 28, 2019 @ 12:28 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.934 West, latitude 18.522 North, depth = 123 km.

The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bayaguana, Sabana de La Mar, Boca Chica (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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: 8 km SSE of Guaymate, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.27 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.934° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.522° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 123 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSE of Guaymate, 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 2019-01-28 00:28:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-28 05:24:10 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 165 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5527 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 177 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 pr2019028000 Id of event.
Event Code 2019028000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019028000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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