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Minor earthquake: M3.55 quake has struck near Miches in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.55 (ml/mb) was reported 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Saturday. Unique identifier: pr2018083000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018083000. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -68.7841° West, 19.2243° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 00:58:16 / 12:58 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/03/18 / 2018-03-24 05:58:16 / March 24, 2018 @ 5:58 am UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop). 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 Punta Cana, Las Terrenas, Guaymate.

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

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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 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: 38 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.55 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.7841° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2243° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38km NE 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	2018-03-24 05:58:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-24 10:14:28	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	194	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8166	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	239	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	pr2018083000	Id of event.
Event Code	2018083000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018083000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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