Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag has occurred near Salvaleon de Higuey in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Salvaleon de Higuey in Dominican Republic. Event id: pr2019300028. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019300028. Global time and date of event 27/10/19 / 2019-10-27 19:40:12 / October 27, 2019 @ 7:40 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.8173 West, latitude 18.6221 North, depth = 141 km. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:40:12 / 3:40 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 141 km (88 miles).

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 Los Llanos, El Valle, Quisqueya. The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.8173° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6221° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	141 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km W of Salvaleon de Higuey, 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	2019-10-27 19:40:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-27 22:21:09	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	127	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	6	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.7881	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.07 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	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	pr2019300028	Id of event.
Event Code	2019300028	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019300028,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag has occurred near Salvaleon de Higuey in Dominican Republic

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