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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Santa Barbara de Samana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Santa Barbara de Samana in Dominican Republic. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25 km (16 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.8206 West, latitude 19.5485 North, depth = 25 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018328009. Unique identifier: pr2018328009. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/11/18 / 2018-11-24 20:49:03 / November 24, 2018 @ 8:49 pm. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:49:03 / 3:49 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Las Terrenas (c. 7 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sabana de La Mar, Las Terrenas, Miches (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 66 km NE of Santa Barbara de Samana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.8206° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.5485° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66km NE of Santa Barbara de Samana, 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	2018-11-24 20:49:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-25 01:50:03	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	178	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.2122	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	224	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	pr2018328009	Id of event.
Event Code	2018328009	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018328009,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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