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Minor earthquake, 3.35 mag has occurred near Guaymate in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.5331S, -68.9771WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.35 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Guaymate in Dominican Republic on Sunday. Global time and date of event 28/07/19 / 2019-07-28 16:13:17 / July 28, 2019 @ 4:13 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 12:13:17 / 12:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -68.9771° West, 18.5331° North, depth 139 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 139 km (86 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2019209006. Event ids that are associated: pr2019209006.

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bayaguana, Sabana de La Mar, Boca Chica (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-eight 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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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. 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: 6 km S of Guaymate, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.35 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.9771° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5331° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 139 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km S 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 2019-07-28 16:13:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-28 19:18:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 173 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 0.7856 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 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 pr2019209006 Id of event.
Event Code 2019209006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019209006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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