Earthquake: M 2.9 quake strikes near Otra Banda in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (mg/mb) has striked on Wednesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Otra Banda in Dominican Republic. The temblor was reported at 10:33:44 / 10:33 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 46 km (29 miles). Global time of event 2014-12-18 03:33:44 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -68.4813 West, latitude 19.1327 North, depth 46 km.

Close countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Salvaleón de Higüey, Miches.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.4813° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1327° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56km NNE of Otra Banda, 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	2014-12-18 03:33:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2014-12-18 09:56:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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		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	129	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	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.45616908	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	345.6	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	pr14352000	Id of event.
Event Code	14352000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	pr14352000	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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