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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near La Romana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.2273S, -68.9856WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from La Romana in Dominican Republic. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019148004. Id of event: pr2019148004. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/05/19 / 2019-05-28 06:58:09 / May 28, 2019 @ 6:58 am. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:58:09 / 2:58 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 93 km (58 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -68.9856 West, latitude 18.2273 North, depth = 93 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana, Boca Chica, Los Llanos (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 22 km S of La Romana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.9856° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2273° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km 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 2019-05-28 06:58:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-28 09:06:08 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 138 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.0816 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 230 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 pr2019148004 Id of event.
Event Code 2019148004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019148004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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