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Minor earthquake, 3.32 mag was detected near Miches in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.4285S, -68.7511WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 18:21:29 / 6:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -68.7511° West, latitude 19.4285° North, depth = 9 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 9 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 14/05/19 / 2019-05-14 23:21:29 / May 14, 2019 @ 11:21 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2019134009. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019134009.

The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Sabana de La Mar, Samaná (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 58 km NNE of Miches, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.32 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.7511° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4285° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km NNE 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 2019-05-14 23:21:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-15 05:25:46 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 170 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9865 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 215 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 pr2019134009 Id of event.
Event Code 2019134009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019134009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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