Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag was detected near San Rafael del Yuma in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma in Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 123 km (76 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019267039. Id of event: pr2019267039. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 00:29:49 / September 24, 2019 @ 12:29 am. Exact location of event, depth 123 km, -68.7351° West, 18.4906° North. The temblor was picked up at 20:29:49 / 8:29 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quisqueya, Miches, Hato Mayor del Rey (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 9 km NW of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.7351° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.4906° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	123 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km NW 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	2019-09-24 00:29:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-24 15:50:05	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	128	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.9186	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	222	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	pr2019267039	Id of event.
Event Code	2019267039	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019267039,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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