Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near San Rafael del Yuma in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma in Dominican Republic. Unique identifier: pr2018079004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018079004. Exact location, longitude -68.7656° West, latitude 18.2556° North, depth = 147 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 147 km (91 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:44:40 / 7:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/03/18 / 2018-03-20 23:44:40 / March 20, 2018 @ 11:44 pm.

Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hato Mayor del Rey, Quisqueya, Santa Cruz de El Seibo. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km SSW of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.7656° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.2556° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	147 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km SSW of San Rafael del Yuma, 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	2018-03-20 23:44:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-21 03:58:07	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	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	129	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.463	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	138	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	pr2018079004	Id of event.
Event Code	2018079004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018079004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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