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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Miches in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/06/16 / 2016-06-11 07:18:32 / June 11, 2016 @ 7:18 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16163002. Unique identifier: pr16163002. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 87 km (54 miles). The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:18:32 / 2:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -68.5419° West, 19.139° North, depth 87 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Guaymate, Santa Cruz de El Seibo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Every 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 two, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 55 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.5419° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.139° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	87 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55km 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	2016-06-11 07:18:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-11 12:21:28	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	178	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6288207	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.43 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	pr16163002	Id of event.
Event Code	16163002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16163002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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