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Minor earthquake: M3.07 quake has struck near Otra Banda in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.8445S, -68.5081WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Otra Banda in Dominican Republic. Global time and date of event 02/01/19 / 2019-01-02 07:40:20 / January 2, 2019 @ 7:40 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 50 km, -68.5081° West, 18.8445° North. The 3.07-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:40:20 / 3:40 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019002009. Unique identifier: pr2019002009.

Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Romana, Miches, Guaymate (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days fifty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km NE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.5081° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8445° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km NE 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 2019-01-02 07:40:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-02 11:37:09 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 145 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 0.354 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 306 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 pr2019002009 Id of event.
Event Code 2019002009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019002009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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