Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 17 km ESE of Miches, Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Friday. Global time and date of event 04/04/25 / 2025-04-04 00:38:09 / April 4, 2025 @ 12:38 am UTC/GMT. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:38:09 / 12:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.8905 West, latitude 18.9242 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000q3uj. Unique identifier: us6000q3uj.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Los Llanos, Quisqueya, San Pedro de Macorís. Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.8905° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9242° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km ESE 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	2025-04-04 00:38:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-28 04:42:18	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	148	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.46	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	141	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	us6000q3uj	Id of event.
Event Code	6000q3uj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000q3uj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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