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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near La Romana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on August 10, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.1835S, -68.9205WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 27 kilometers (17 miles) from La Romana in Dominican Republic on Monday. Id of earthquake: pr15222014. Event ids that are associated: pr15222014. Exact location of event, depth 94 km, -68.9205° West, 18.1835° North. The temblor was picked up at 14:45:24 / 2:45 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 10/08/15 / 2015-08-10 18:45:24 / August 10, 2015 @ 6:45 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 94 km (58 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Los Llanos, Boca Chica, Hato Mayor del Rey. Epicenter of the event was 50 km (31 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 27 km SSE of La Romana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.9205° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1835° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km SSE 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 2015-08-10 18:45:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-10 19:31:48 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 138 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.60726113 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 320.4 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 pr15222014 Id of event.
Event Code 15222014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15222014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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