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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Altamira in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.635S, -70.8137WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Altamira in Dominican Republic on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21.67 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -70.8137° West, 19.635° North, depth 21.67 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us600054sz. Unique identifier: us600054sz. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:27:29 / 6:27 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/08/19 / 2019-08-13 22:27:29 / August 13, 2019 @ 10:27 pm.

Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Santiago de los Caballeros (c. 1 200 000 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Puerto Plata (c. 146 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from San Francisco de Macorís (c. 124 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Concepción de La Vega (c. 102 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Moca (c. 61 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Las Guáranas, Fantino, Río San Juan (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 SE of Altamira, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.8137° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.635° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SE of Altamira, 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 2019-08-13 22:27:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-13 23:30:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 159 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 0.222 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us600054sz Id of event.
Event Code 600054sz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600054sz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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