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Minor earthquake, 3.41 mag was detected near Miches in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.3348S, -68.5173WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.41 (ml/mb) was reported 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -68.5173° West, latitude 19.3348° North, depth = 127 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/08/17 / 2017-08-05 16:19:46 / August 5, 2017 @ 4:19 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 127 km (79 miles). Event id: pr2017217010. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017217010. The temblor was picked up at 11:19:46 / 11:19 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda, Miches. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 67 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.41 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.5173° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3348° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km 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 2017-08-05 16:19:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-05 20:58:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 179 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8321 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 331 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 pr2017217010 Id of event.
Event Code 2017217010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017217010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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