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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Miches in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 83 km (52 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr2019141004. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019141004. The temblor was detected at 16:06:00 / 4:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -68.5851° West, 19.2211° North, depth 83 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/05/19 / 2019-05-21 21:06:00 / May 21, 2019 @ 9:06 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaymate, Samaná, Punta Cana.

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 five, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 55 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.5851° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2211° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	83 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55km 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	2019-05-21 21:06:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-21 22:08:58	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	168	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.607	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.58 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	199	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	pr2019141004	Id of event.
Event Code	2019141004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019141004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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