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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Miches in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.4025S, -68.4291WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66 km (41 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/07/16 / 2016-07-23 15:09:43 / July 23, 2016 @ 3:09 pm. The temblor was picked up at 10:09:43 / 10:09 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr16205005. Unique identifier: pr16205005. Exact location, longitude -68.4291° West, latitude 19.4025° North, depth = 66 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miches (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 79 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4291° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4025° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km 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 2016-07-23 15:09:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-23 15:40:19 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.55498376 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 345.6 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 pr16205005 Id of event.
Event Code 16205005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16205005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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