Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Ramon Santana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Ramon Santana in Dominican Republic. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 107.69 km (67 miles). The temblor was picked up at 14:44:29 / 2:44 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000d7u2. Event ids that are associated: pr2018056008, us2000d7u2. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.1354 West, latitude 18.5931 North, depth = 107.69 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/02/18 / 2018-02-25 18:44:29 / February 25, 2018 @ 6:44 pm.

The epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana, Monte Plata, Samaná (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.1354° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.5931° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	107.69 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km NE of Ramon Santana, 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	2018-02-25 18:44:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-26 13:37:56	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	130	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pr,us,	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	0.719	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	346	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000d7u2	Id of event.
Event Code	2000d7u2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018056008,us2000d7u2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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