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Minor earthquake: M3.43 quake has struck near Miches in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on November 18, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.8785S, -68.4543WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 117 km NNE of Miches, Dominican Republic (73 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2017322003. Event ids that are associated: pr2017322003. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 75 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.43-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:26:50 / 9:26 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 18/11/17 / 2017-11-18 14:26:50 / November 18, 2017 @ 2:26 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.4543 West, latitude 19.8785 North, depth = 75 km.

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

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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. 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: 117 km NNE of Miches, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.43 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4543° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.8785° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 117km NNE 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 2017-11-18 14:26:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-18 15:58:21 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.948 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 348 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 pr2017322003 Id of event.
Event Code 2017322003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017322003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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