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Minor earthquake, 3.23 mag has occurred near La Romana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from La Romana in Dominican Republic. Id of earthquake: pr2019091000. Event ids that are associated: pr2019091000. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 101 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -68.9253° West, 18.0308° North, depth 101 km. The 3.23-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:18:29 / 9:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 01/04/19 / 2019-04-01 02:18:29 / April 1, 2019 @ 2:18 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quisqueya, Otra Banda, Salvaleón de Higüey (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 62 km (38 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Quisqueya (c. 17 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 44 km S of La Romana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.23 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.9253° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0308° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	101 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44km 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	2019-04-01 02:18:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-04-01 18:43:32	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	161	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.7275	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	249	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	pr2019091000	Id of event.
Event Code	2019091000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019091000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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