Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Ramon Santana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Ramon Santana in Dominican Republic. Id of earthquake: us60006rgz. Event ids that are associated: pr2019348006, us60006rgz. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.1798 West, latitude 18.5383 North, depth = 72.69 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 72.69 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/12/19 / 2019-12-14 09:43:09 / December 14, 2019 @ 9:43 am UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:43:09 / 5:43 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Villa Francisca, Ciudad Nueva, Villa Consuelo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Villa Francisca (c. 50 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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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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. 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: 0 km S of Ramon Santana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.1798° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.5383° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	72.69 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	0km S of Ramon Santana, 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	2019-12-14 09:43:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-14 12:37:45	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	121	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	,pr,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	0.313	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	158	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	us60006rgz	Id of event.
Event Code	60006rgz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019348006,us60006rgz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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