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Minor earthquake 3.42 mag, 20 km SE of La Romana, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.2853S, -68.8543WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from La Romana in Dominican Republic on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 105 km (65 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/11/19 / 2019-11-21 22:51:43 / November 21, 2019 @ 10:51 pm. The 3.42-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:51:43 / 6:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.8543 West, latitude 18.2853 North, depth = 105 km. Id of earthquake: pr2019325027. Event ids that are associated: pr2019325027.

The epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Boca Chica, Miches, Los Llanos. Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 20 km SE of La Romana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.42 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.8543° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2853° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 105 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km SE 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 2019-11-21 22:51:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-22 00:02:03 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 180 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 1.3786 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 216 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 pr2019325027 Id of event.
Event Code 2019325027 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019325027, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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