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Minor earthquake: M3.28 quake has struck near Guaymate in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.5563S, -68.942WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guaymate in Dominican Republic. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 122 km (76 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -68.942 West, latitude 18.5563 North, depth = 122 km. Global time and date of event 03/05/19 / 2019-05-03 10:08:38 / May 3, 2019 @ 10:08 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019123002. Id of event: pr2019123002. The temblor was detected at 06:08:38 / 6:08 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bayaguana, Sabana de La Mar, Boca Chica (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 5 km SE of Guaymate, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.28 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.942° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5563° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 122 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SE 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 2019-05-03 10:08:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-03 11:17:44 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 166 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5622 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171 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 pr2019123002 Id of event.
Event Code 2019123002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019123002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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