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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near San Rafael del Yuma in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma in Dominican Republic. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.6473 West, latitude 18.4829 North, depth = 140 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 140 km (87 miles). Unique identifier: pr16148007. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16148007. Global time and date of event 27/05/16 / 2016-05-27 02:34:31 / May 27, 2016 @ 2:34 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 22:34:31 / 10:34 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quisqueya, Hato Mayor del Rey, Miches (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km NNE of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.6473° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.4829° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	140 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km NNE of San Rafael del Yuma, 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	2016-05-27 02:34:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-27 06:03:50	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	188	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.75907642	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	183.6	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	pr16148007	Id of event.
Event Code	16148007	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16148007,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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