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Minor earthquake 3.13 mag, Dominican Republic region

Posted by admin on March 17, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.3685S, -68.6208WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, Dominican Republic region kilometers (0 miles) from Dominican Republic region. Exact location of event, longitude -68.6208 West, latitude 19.3685 North, depth = 145 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/03/19 / 2019-03-17 13:51:36 / March 17, 2019 @ 1:51 pm. The temblor was detected at 13:51:36 / 1:51 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019076008. Id of event: pr2019076008. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 145 km (90 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Otra Banda, Samaná (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.13 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6208° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3685° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 145 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 2019-03-17 13:51:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-17 16:35:57 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 151 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 0.8875 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 347 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 pr2019076008 Id of event.
Event Code 2019076008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019076008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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