Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near La Romana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from La Romana in Dominican Republic. Unique identifier: pr15321005. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15321005. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 139 km (86 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 17/11/15 / 2015-11-17 07:58:15 / November 17, 2015 @ 7:58 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -68.9909 West, latitude 18.4057 North, depth = 139 km. The temblor was reported at 03:58:15 / 3:58 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bayaguana, El Valle, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 3 km (2 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop).

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

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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: 3 km SW of La Romana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.9909° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.4057° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	139 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km SW 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	2015-11-17 07:58:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-17 12:47:51	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	188	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.58839651	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.36 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	334.8	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	pr15321005	Id of event.
Event Code	15321005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15321005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

3.5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-68.9909° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

18.4057° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

139 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

3km SW 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

2015-11-17 07:58:15

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2015-11-17 12:47:51

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

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

188

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.

Horizontal Distance

0.58839651

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.36 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

334.8

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

pr15321005

Id of event.

Event Code

15321005

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,pr15321005,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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