Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Miches in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 86 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic (53 miles) on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/02/19 / 2019-02-05 13:17:21 / February 5, 2019 @ 1:17 pm. Exact location of event, depth 41 km, -68.3271° West, 19.3655° North. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:17:21 / 8:17 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019036030. Unique identifier: pr2019036030. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

Did you feel the quake?

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: 86 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Dominican Republic Miches

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.3271° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3655° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	41 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	86km 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	2019-02-05 13:17:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-05 15:26:43	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8533	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	293	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	pr2019036030	Id of event.
Event Code	2019036030	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019036030,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Miches in Dominican Republic

Did you feel the quake?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information