Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag has occurred near Santa Barbara de Samana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Santa Barbara de Samana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.98 West, latitude 19.4606 North, depth = 66 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019124009. Id of event: pr2019124009. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66 km (41 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/05/19 / 2019-05-04 18:27:30 / May 4, 2019 @ 6:27 pm. The temblor was picked up at 13:27:30 / 1:27 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Sánchez, El Valle. Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Sánchez (c. 11 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-three 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 46 km NE of Santa Barbara de Samana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.98° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4606° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	66 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46km 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	2019-05-04 18:27:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-04 20:40:33	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	133	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	0.2693	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.43 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	247	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	pr2019124009	Id of event.
Event Code	2019124009	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019124009,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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