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Minor earthquake, 3.27 mag was detected near Miches in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic. The 3.27-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:47:32 / 12:47 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2019051005. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019051005. Exact location of event, longitude -68.6671 West, latitude 19.2475 North, depth = 133 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/02/19 / 2019-02-20 05:47:32 / February 20, 2019 @ 5:47 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 133 km (83 miles).

Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Valle, Guaymate, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop).

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 eight, in the past 30 days ninety-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 49 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic.

Dominican Republic El Valle Guaymate Miches Punta Cana Sabana de La Mar Salvaleon de Higuey Samaná Santa Cruz de El Seibo

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.27 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.6671° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2475° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	133 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49km 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	2019-02-20 05:47:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-20 09:15:10	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	165	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.7873	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	342	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	pr2019051005	Id of event.
Event Code	2019051005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019051005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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