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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near La Romana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 55 kilometers (34 miles) from La Romana in Dominican Republic on Thursday. Event id: pr16224003. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16224003. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/08/16 / 2016-08-11 06:40:33 / August 11, 2016 @ 6:40 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 103 km (64 miles). The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:40:33 / 1:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 103 km, -68.9422° West, 17.9279° North.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salvaleón de Higüey, Guaymate, San Pedro de Macorís. Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (44 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 55 km S of La Romana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.9422° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9279° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	103 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55km S of La Romana, 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	2016-08-11 06:40:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-11 07:34:32	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.78961913	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	313.2	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	pr16224003	Id of event.
Event Code	16224003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16224003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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