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Minor earthquake, 3.39 mag was detected near Miches in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on September 28, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.4103S, -68.4258WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.39 (ml/mb) was reported 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Monday. Global time and date of event 28/09/20 / 2020-09-28 03:25:21 / September 28, 2020 @ 3:25 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). The 3.39-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:25:21 / 3:25 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2020272001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c210, pr2020272001. Exact location of earthquake, -68.4258° West, 19.4103° North, depth 8 km.

The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miches.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 nine, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days five hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 80 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.39 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4258° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4103° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80 km 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 2020-09-28 03:25:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-28 07:12:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 177 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7719 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 215 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 pr2020272001 Id of event.
Event Code 2020272001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c210,pr2020272001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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