Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Santa Cruz de El Seibo in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo in Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.9657 West, latitude 18.8562 North, depth = 35 km. Unique identifier: us7000mtxi. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mtxi. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/06/24 / 2024-06-22 07:42:10 / June 22, 2024 @ 7:42 am. The temblor was picked up at 07:42:10 / 7:42 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sánchez, Las Terrenas, Bayaguana (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 12 km NE of Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.9657° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8562° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km NE of Santa Cruz de El Seibo, 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	2024-06-22 07:42:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-22 07:57:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	148	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.983	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	136	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	us7000mtxi	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mtxi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mtxi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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