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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 39 km E of Miches, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.0144S, -68.6745WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 29/04/20 / 2020-04-29 00:41:48 / April 29, 2020 @ 12:41 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location, longitude -68.6745° West, latitude 19.0144° North, depth = 35 km. The temblor was reported at 20:41:48 / 8:41 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60009eeb. Unique identifier: us60009eeb.

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sabana de La Mar, El Valle, Samaná (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 39 km E of Miches, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6745° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0144° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km E 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 2020-04-29 00:41:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-29 00:59:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 138 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.705 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60009eeb Id of event.
Event Code 60009eeb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009eeb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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