Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near La Romana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from La Romana in Dominican Republic. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/10/18 / 2018-10-16 02:05:31 / October 16, 2018 @ 2:05 am. The temblor was picked up at 22:05:31 / 10:05 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 143 km (89 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -68.8661 West, latitude 18.042 North, depth = 143 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018289005. Unique identifier: pr2018289005.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quisqueya, Punta Cana, Otra Banda (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Quisqueya (c. 17 700 pop).

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

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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: 44 km SSE of La Romana, Dominican Republic.

Dominican Republic La Romana Otra Banda Punta Cana Quisqueya Salvaleon de Higuey San Pedro de Macoris

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.8661° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.042° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	143 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44km SSE 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	2018-10-16 02:05:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-16 05:42:43	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	168	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	0.6765	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	235	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	pr2018289005	Id of event.
Event Code	2018289005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018289005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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