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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Cabarete in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Cabarete in Dominican Republic. Event id: us10005bst. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005bst. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/04/16 / 2016-04-26 22:56:14 / April 26, 2016 @ 10:56 pm. The temblor was reported at 18:56:14 / 6:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.3643 West, latitude 19.693 North, depth = 26.62 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 26.62 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Santiago de los Caballeros (c. 1 200 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Puerto Plata (c. 146 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from San Francisco de Macorís (c. 124 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Concepción de La Vega (c. 102 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Bonao (c. 73 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Moca (c. 61 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monción, Bonao, Mao (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km SE of Cabarete, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.3643° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.693° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26.62 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km SE of Cabarete, 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	2016-04-26 22:56:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-26 23:20:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	6	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	236	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	0.432	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10005bst	Id of event.
Event Code	10005bst	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005bst,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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