Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag has occurred near La Romana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from La Romana in Dominican Republic. The epicenter was at a depth of 104 km (65 miles). The temblor was picked up at 17:27:56 / 5:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.973 West, latitude 18.1558 North, depth = 104 km. Event id: pr2019075012. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019075012, us1000jh91. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/03/19 / 2019-03-16 22:27:56 / March 16, 2019 @ 10:27 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana, Los Llanos, Hato Mayor del Rey.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 27 km S of La Romana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.973° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.1558° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	104 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km S 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	2019-03-16 22:27:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-17 00:02:29	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	133	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6915	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	235	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	pr2019075012	Id of event.
Event Code	2019075012	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019075012,us1000jh91,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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