Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag was detected near Otra Banda in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Otra Banda in Dominican Republic. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018214005. Unique identifier: pr2018214005. Global time and date of event 02/08/18 / 2018-08-02 15:16:39 / August 2, 2018 @ 3:16 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 26 km (16 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -68.4118 West, latitude 19.0978 North, depth = 26 km. The temblor was reported at 10:16:39 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 62 km (39 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Miches, Salvaleón de Higüey.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 56 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.4118° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0978° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56km 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	2018-08-02 15:16:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-02 22:07:20	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	123	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	6	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5847	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	298	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	pr2018214005	Id of event.
Event Code	2018214005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018214005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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