Minor earthquake: M3.13 quake has struck near La Romana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from La Romana in Dominican Republic. The 3.13-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:46:03 / 2:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.8791 West, latitude 18.3386 North, depth = 110 km. Global time and date of event 13/09/18 / 2018-09-13 06:46:03 / September 13, 2018 @ 6:46 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2018256002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018256002. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 110 km (68 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Boca Chica, Miches, Los Llanos (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 46 km (29 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km SE of La Romana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.13 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.8791° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.3386° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	110 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km SE 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	2018-09-13 06:46:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-13 08:55:56	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		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	151	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5277	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	177	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	pr2018256002	Id of event.
Event Code	2018256002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018256002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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