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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Miches in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:41:46 / 8:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -68.9946° West, latitude 19.0453° North, depth = 37 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/04/20 / 2020-04-29 00:41:46 / April 29, 2020 @ 12:41 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020120007, us60009eeb. Unique identifier: pr2020120007. The epicenter was at a depth of 37 km (23 miles).

The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana, San Rafael del Yuma, Bayaguana (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 three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 39 km E of Miches, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.9946° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0453° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39km E 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	2020-04-29 00:41:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-29 03:27:56	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.6533	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	314	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	pr2020120007	Id of event.
Event Code	2020120007	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020120007,us60009eeb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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