Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Miches in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 87 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic (54 miles). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -68.5146° West, 19.5876° North. Unique identifier: pr16009004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16009004. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was picked up at 03:05:19 / 3:05 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/01/16 / 2016-01-09 08:05:19 / January 9, 2016 @ 8:05 am.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.5146° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.5876° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	87km 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	2016-01-09 08:05:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-09 08:51:57	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	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.07438508	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	291.6	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	pr16009004	Id of event.
Event Code	16009004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16009004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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