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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Miches in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.2562S, -68.7608WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic. Global time and date of event 19/07/15 / 2015-07-19 16:50:05 / July 19, 2015 @ 4:50 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -68.7608° West, latitude 19.2562° North, depth = 39 km. Unique identifier: pr15200021. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15200021. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:50:05 / 11:50 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 72 km (44 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaymate, Hato Mayor del Rey, El Valle. Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 42 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 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.7608° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2562° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km 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 2015-07-19 16:50:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-19 19:47:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.82106017 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 320.4 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 pr15200021 Id of event.
Event Code 15200021 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15200021, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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