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Minor earthquake: M3.36 quake has struck near Miches in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.36 (ml/mb) was reported 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2019120000. Event ids that are associated: pr2019120000. The 3.36-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:55:14 / 8:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -68.8836° West, 19.3251° North, depth 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/04/19 / 2019-04-30 01:55:14 / April 30, 2019 @ 1:55 am.

Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda, Sánchez (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. 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: 41 km NNE of Miches, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.36 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.8836° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3251° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41km NNE 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	2019-04-30 01:55:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-04-30 06:07:04	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	174	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.954	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	208	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	pr2019120000	Id of event.
Event Code	2019120000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019120000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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