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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Guaymate in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Guaymate in Dominican Republic on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/11/16 / 2016-11-12 00:00:56 / November 12, 2016 @ 12:00 am. Unique identifier: pr16317000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16317000. Exact location of event, longitude -68.9866 West, latitude 18.6261 North, depth = 130 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 130 km (81 miles). The temblor was detected at 20:00:56 / 8:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Event epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monte Plata, Samaná, Bayaguana.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km N of Guaymate, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.9866° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6261° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	130 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km N of Guaymate, 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	2016-11-12 00:00:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-12 02:43:01	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	211	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	0.58390493	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	234	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	pr16317000	Id of event.
Event Code	16317000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16317000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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