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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 56 km NNE of Miches, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.414S, -68.7605WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Tuesday. Unique identifier: pr2020217002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020217002. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/08/20 / 2020-08-04 15:21:49 / August 4, 2020 @ 3:21 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 76 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:21:49 / 3:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.7605 West, latitude 19.414 North, depth = 76 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Otra Banda, Las Terrenas, El Valle. Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Las Terrenas (c. 7 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Close 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 56 km NNE of Miches, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.7605° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.414° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56 km 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 2020-08-04 15:21:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-04 18:26:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 222 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4454 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219 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 pr2020217002 Id of event.
Event Code 2020217002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020217002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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