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Minor earthquake 3.24 mag, Dominican Republic region


Earthquake location 17.9565S, -68.253WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) strikes Dominican Republic region kilometers (0 miles) from Dominican Republic region on Wednesday. Unique identifier: pr2018283007. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018283007. Exact location of earthquake, -68.253° West, 17.9565° North, depth 82 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 82 km (51 miles). Global time and date of event 10/10/18 / 2018-10-10 21:26:19 / October 10, 2018 @ 9:26 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 21:26:19 / 9:26 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana, San Rafael del Yuma.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: Dominican Republic region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.24 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.253° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9565° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Dominican Republic region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-10 21:26:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-11 01:03:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 162 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 0.572 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 207 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 pr2018283007 Id of event.
Event Code 2018283007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018283007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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