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Minor earthquake: M3.87 quake has struck near Guaymate in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.5518S, -68.9383WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.87 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guaymate in Dominican Republic on Thursday. Global time and date of event 13/06/19 / 2019-06-13 17:15:18 / June 13, 2019 @ 5:15 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2019164009. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019164009. Exact location of event, depth 98 km, -68.9383° West, 18.5518° North. The temblor was picked up at 13:15:18 / 1:15 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 98 km (61 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Samaná, Bayaguana, Sabana de La Mar (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km SE of Guaymate, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.9383° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5518° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SE of Guaymate, 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 2019-06-13 17:15:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-13 18:05:24 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 230 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7792 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 186 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 pr2019164009 Id of event.
Event Code 2019164009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019164009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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