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Minor earthquake, 3.03 mag was detected near Otra Banda in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.0035S, -68.4358WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Otra Banda in Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 109 km (68 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/02/19 / 2019-02-17 05:36:08 / February 17, 2019 @ 5:36 am. The temblor was reported at 00:36:08 / 12:36 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2019048003. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019048003. Exact location of event, longitude -68.4358 West, latitude 19.0035 North, depth = 109 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guaymate, Santa Cruz de El Seibo, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 45 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.03 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4358° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0035° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 109 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km NNE of Otra Banda, 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 2019-02-17 05:36:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-17 07:05:20 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 141 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4926 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 pr2019048003 Id of event.
Event Code 2019048003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019048003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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