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Minor earthquake, 3.14 mag has occurred near Miches in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.3261S, -68.4846WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) was reported 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/04/18 / 2018-04-30 10:46:33 / April 30, 2018 @ 10:46 am. Id of earthquake: pr2018120007. Event ids that are associated: pr2018120007. The 3.14-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:46:33 / 5:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.4846 West, latitude 19.3261 North, depth = 64 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64 km (40 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Otra Banda, Miches.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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 ten, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 70 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.14 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4846° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3261° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km ENE 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 2018-04-30 10:46:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-30 11:17:28 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 152 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.6196 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 235 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 pr2018120007 Id of event.
Event Code 2018120007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018120007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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