Minor earthquake: M2.86 quake has struck near Miches in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was reported 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Wednesday. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:39:31 / 7:39 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 96 km (60 miles). Unique identifier: pr2018017006. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018017006. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.64 West, latitude 19.0511 North, depth = 96 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/01/18 / 2018-01-17 11:39:31 / January 17, 2018 @ 11:39 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 49 km (30 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Samaná, Hato Mayor del Rey, San Rafael del Yuma.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km E of Miches, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.64° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0511° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	96 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km E 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	2018-01-17 11:39:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-17 16:48:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	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	126	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	1.7837	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	221	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	pr2018017006	Id of event.
Event Code	2018017006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018017006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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