Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Miches in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 103 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic (64 miles) on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019127007. Unique identifier: pr2019127007. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/05/19 / 2019-05-07 14:32:09 / May 7, 2019 @ 2:32 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33 km (21 miles). The temblor was detected at 09:32:09 / 9:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -68.2521° West, 19.5318° North, depth 33 km.

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 twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 103 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.2521° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.5318° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	33 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	103km 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	2019-05-07 14:32:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-07 17:06:51	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	158	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	1.026	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.44 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	302	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	pr2019127007	Id of event.
Event Code	2019127007	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019127007,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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