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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Guaymate in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.5893S, -68.9248WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guaymate in Dominican Republic on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 109 km, -68.9248° West, 18.5893° North. The temblor was detected at 19:34:13 / 7:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/07/19 / 2019-07-19 23:34:13 / July 19, 2019 @ 11:34 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 109 km (68 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019200011. Unique identifier: pr2019200011.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bayaguana, Boca Chica, Sabana de La Mar (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 5 km E of Guaymate, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.9248° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5893° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 109 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km E 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 2019-07-19 23:34:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-20 00:18:08 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 148 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 0.7484 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 pr2019200011 Id of event.
Event Code 2019200011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019200011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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