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Minor earthquake, 3.32 mag has occurred near Miches in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on November 15, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.3378S, -68.395WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic. The 3.32-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:54:43 / 9:54 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 89 km (55 miles). Global time and date of event 15/11/18 / 2018-11-15 02:54:43 / November 15, 2018 @ 2:54 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 89 km, -68.395° West, 19.3378° North. Id of earthquake: pr2018319000. Event ids that are associated: pr2018319000.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Otra Banda, Miches (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Close 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 79 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.32 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.395° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3378° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km 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 2018-11-15 02:54:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-15 04:43:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 170 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.824 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 234 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 pr2018319000 Id of event.
Event Code 2018319000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018319000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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