Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, Dominican Republic region

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported Dominican Republic region (0 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude -68.1904 West, latitude 19.6662 North, depth = 47 km. Id of earthquake: pr16213002. Event ids that are associated: pr16213002. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/07/16 / 2016-07-31 00:52:33 / July 31, 2016 @ 12:52 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:52:33 / 12:52 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 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: Dominican Republic region.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.1904° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.6662° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Dominican Republic region	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-31 00:52:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-31 09:35:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	158	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.56845849	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	334.8	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	pr16213002	Id of event.
Event Code	16213002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16213002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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