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Minor earthquake 2.92 mag, 78 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.4183S, -68.4611WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) strikes 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Sunday. Global time and date of event 06/10/19 / 2019-10-06 13:06:44 / October 6, 2019 @ 1:06 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 61 km, -68.4611° West, 19.4183° North. Id of earthquake: pr2019279013. Event ids that are associated: pr2019279013. The 2.92-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:06:44 / 8:06 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 61 km (38 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miches (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 78 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4611° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4183° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km 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 2019-10-06 13:06:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-06 14:02:46 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 131 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7384 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 216 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 pr2019279013 Id of event.
Event Code 2019279013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019279013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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