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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 37 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/10/15 / 2015-10-29 22:18:27 / October 29, 2015 @ 10:18 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: pr15302015. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15302015. The temblor was picked up at 17:18:27 / 5:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -68.762° West, latitude 19.186° North, depth = 128 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 128 km (80 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Las Terrenas, Punta Cana. Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 37 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.762° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.186° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	128 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37km 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	2015-10-29 22:18:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-30 17:04:45	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.45347413	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	338.4	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	pr15302015	Id of event.
Event Code	15302015	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15302015,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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