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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Miches in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on April 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.6219S, -68.3277WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 103 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic (64 miles) on Monday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16102000. Id of event: pr16102000. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 62 km (39 miles). The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:30:54 / 1:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -68.3277° West, latitude 19.6219° North, depth = 62 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/04/16 / 2016-04-11 06:30:54 / April 11, 2016 @ 6:30 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 103 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.3277° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6219° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103km NE 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 2016-04-11 06:30:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-11 07:26:43 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 178 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8758574 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 226.8 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 pr16102000 Id of event.
Event Code 16102000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16102000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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