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Minor earthquake 3.43 mag, 51 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) strikes 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2017239014. Unique identifier: pr2017239014. Exact location of event, depth 24 km, -68.5748° West, 19.1035° North. Global time and date of event 27/08/17 / 2017-08-27 22:07:40 / August 27, 2017 @ 10:07 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). The temblor was picked up at 17:07:40 / 5:07 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hato Mayor del Rey, Samaná, San Rafael del Yuma. Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one 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.

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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 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: 51 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.43 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.5748° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1035° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51km 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	2017-08-27 22:07:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-27 22:52:49	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	181	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6205	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	299	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	pr2017239014	Id of event.
Event Code	2017239014	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017239014,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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