Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag strikes near Otra Banda in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Otra Banda in Dominican Republic. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/06/17 / 2017-06-19 17:17:59 / June 19, 2017 @ 5:17 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 26 km (16 miles). Unique identifier: pr2017170006. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2017170006. Exact location of earthquake, -68.5166° West, 19.1156° North, depth 26 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:17:59 / 12:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Rafael del Yuma, Guaymate, Santa Cruz de El Seibo. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 53 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.92 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.5166° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1156° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53km 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	2017-06-19 17:17:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-23 02:12:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	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	131	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6167	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	307	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	pr2017170006	Id of event.
Event Code	2017170006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017170006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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