Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag was detected near Otra Banda in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Otra Banda in Dominican Republic on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019032004. Id of event: pr2019032004. The 2.93-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:38:16 / 2:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.5185 West, latitude 18.8901 North, depth = 108 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 108 km (67 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 01/02/19 / 2019-02-01 06:38:16 / February 1, 2019 @ 6:38 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Romana, Guaymate, Miches (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days seventy-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 30 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.93 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.5185° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8901° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	108 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km NNE 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	2019-02-01 06:38:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-01 07:48:44	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	132	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4004	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	264	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	pr2019032004	Id of event.
Event Code	2019032004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019032004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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