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Minor earthquake: M3.42 quake has struck near Santa Barbara de Samana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Santa Barbara de Samana in Dominican Republic. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018186014. Id of event: pr2018186014. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 05/07/18 / 2018-07-05 14:29:24 / July 5, 2018 @ 2:29 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.42-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:29:24 / 9:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -68.9178° West, latitude 19.5095° North, depth = 55 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sánchez, El Valle, Sabana de La Mar (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Sánchez (c. 11 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Las Terrenas (c. 7 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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: 55 km NE of Santa Barbara de Samana, Dominican Republic.

Dominican Republic El Valle Las Terrenas Miches Sabana de La Mar Samaná Sánchez Santa Barbara de Samana

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.42 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.9178° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.5095° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	55 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55km NE of Santa Barbara de Samana, 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	2018-07-05 14:29:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-05 16:56:02	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	180	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.1308	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	330	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	pr2018186014	Id of event.
Event Code	2018186014	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018186014,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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