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Minor earthquake 3.18 mag, 73 km NE of Santa Barbara de Samana, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.701S, -68.8716WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Santa Barbara de Samana in Dominican Republic. Unique identifier: pr2018336015. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018336015. Global time and date of event 02/12/18 / 2018-12-02 19:07:33 / December 2, 2018 @ 7:07 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.18-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:07:33 / 2:07 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 19 km (12 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -68.8716° West, 19.701° North, depth 19 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Samaná. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 73 km NE of Santa Barbara de Samana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.18 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.8716° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.701° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km NE of Santa Barbara de Samana, 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 2018-12-02 19:07:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-03 01:36:44 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 156 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.2843 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 231 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 pr2018336015 Id of event.
Event Code 2018336015 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018336015, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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