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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 47 km NNE of Miches, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.3733S, -68.8565WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic. The temblor was picked up at 00:16:21 / 12:16 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr15218008. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15218008. Global time and date of event 06/08/15 / 2015-08-06 05:16:21 / August 6, 2015 @ 5:16 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -68.8565° West, latitude 19.3733° North, depth = 102 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 102 km (63 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Sánchez (c. 11 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaymate, Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 47 km NNE of Miches, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.8565° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3733° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km NNE of Miches, 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 2015-08-06 05:16:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-06 09:15:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 234 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.88197052 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 331.2 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 pr15218008 Id of event.
Event Code 15218008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15218008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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