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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Salvaleon de Higuey in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.6515S, -68.735WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Salvaleon de Higuey in Dominican Republic. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15210016. Id of event: pr15210016. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/07/15 / 2015-07-29 19:18:08 / July 29, 2015 @ 7:18 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.735 West, latitude 18.6515 North, depth = 182 km. The temblor was reported at 15:18:08 / 3:18 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 182 km (113 miles).

Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sabana de La Mar, Los Llanos, El Valle (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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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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. 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: 4 km NW of Salvaleon de Higuey, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.735° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6515° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 182 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NW of Salvaleon de Higuey, 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 2015-07-29 19:18:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-29 21:18:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 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 222 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.36112274 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 212.4 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 pr15210016 Id of event.
Event Code 15210016 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15210016, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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