Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near La Romana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from La Romana in Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 92.86 km (58 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 04:47:02 / 4:47 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60008exg. Id of event: us60008exg. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/03/20 / 2020-03-13 08:47:02 / March 13, 2020 @ 8:47 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.0783 West, latitude 18.4145 North, depth = 92.86 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana, El Valle, Bayaguana (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km W of La Romana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.0783° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.4145° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	92.86 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km W of La Romana, 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	2020-03-13 08:47:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-02 06:26:08	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	,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	0.469	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	167	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	us60008exg	Id of event.
Event Code	60008exg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60008exg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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