Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near San Rafael del Yuma in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma in Dominican Republic on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -68.7218° West, latitude 18.4049° North, depth = 26.03 km. Unique identifier: us60004wea. Ids that are associated to the event: us60004wea. The temblor was reported at 00:25:03 / 12:25 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/07/19 / 2019-07-27 04:25:03 / July 27, 2019 @ 4:25 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 26.03 km (16 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quisqueya, Miches, Hato Mayor del Rey (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 5 km WSW of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.7218° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.4049° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26.03 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km WSW of San Rafael del Yuma, 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	2019-07-27 04:25:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-27 06:32:20	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	139	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.136	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	149	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us60004wea	Id of event.
Event Code	60004wea	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60004wea,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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