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Minor earthquake, 3.31 mag was detected near Miches in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on January 30, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.3265S, -68.4336WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019030028. Id of event: pr2019030028. The temblor was reported at 17:16:51 / 5:16 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/01/19 / 2019-01-30 22:16:51 / January 30, 2019 @ 10:16 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -68.4336° West, 19.3265° North, depth 80 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 80 km (50 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Otra Banda, Miches. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 74 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.31 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4336° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3265° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km 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 2019-01-30 22:16:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-30 22:38:40 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 169 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.7722 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241 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 pr2019030028 Id of event.
Event Code 2019030028 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019030028, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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