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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Miches in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/09/15 / 2015-09-06 02:26:33 / September 6, 2015 @ 2:26 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 47 km (29 miles). Id of earthquake: pr15249001. Event ids that are associated: pr15249001. Exact location of event, depth 47 km, -68.737° West, 19.0529° North. The temblor was reported at 22:26:33 / 10:26 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Romana, San Rafael del Yuma, Sabana de La Mar. Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 33 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.737° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0529° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km ENE 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	2015-09-06 02:26:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-06 05:47:41	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	168	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.63331228	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	316.8	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	pr15249001	Id of event.
Event Code	15249001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15249001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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