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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Miches in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on December 31, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0629S, -68.888WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15365003. Id of event: pr15365003. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/12/15 / 2015-12-31 17:25:40 / December 31, 2015 @ 5:25 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.888 West, latitude 19.0629 North, depth = 142 km. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:25:40 / 1:25 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 142 km (88 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). The epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bayaguana, Los Llanos, San Pedro de Macorís.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.888° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0629° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 142 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km 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 2015-12-31 17:25:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-31 17:49:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 211 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.49569495 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 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 pr15365003 Id of event.
Event Code 15365003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15365003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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