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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near La Romana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.4018S, -68.8837WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from La Romana in Dominican Republic. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/08/15 / 2015-08-02 07:16:42 / August 2, 2015 @ 7:16 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15214003. Id of event: pr15214003. Exact location of event, longitude -68.8837 West, latitude 18.4018 North, depth = 160 km. The temblor was detected at 03:16:42 / 3:16 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 160 km (99 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Valle, Boca Chica, Los Llanos (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 44 km (27 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 9 km ESE of La Romana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.8837° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4018° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 160 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km ESE 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 2015-08-02 07:16:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-02 11:53:38 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 178 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.33220157 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 349.2 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 pr15214003 Id of event.
Event Code 15214003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15214003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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