Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Miches in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 74 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr16131003. Event ids that are associated: pr16131003. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/05/16 / 2016-05-10 05:35:17 / May 10, 2016 @ 5:35 am. The temblor was reported at 01:35:17 / 1:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.6614 West, latitude 19.059 North, depth = 74 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sabana de La Mar, El Valle, Samaná (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 41 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.6614° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.059° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41km 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	2016-05-10 05:35:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-10 08:16:20	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	121	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	0.54797232	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	172.8	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	pr16131003	Id of event.
Event Code	16131003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16131003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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