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Minor earthquake, 3.57 mag strikes near Otra Banda in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.57 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Otra Banda in Dominican Republic. Exact location of event, depth 51 km, -68.488° West, 19.1993° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 51 km (32 miles). The 3.57-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:48:25 / 4:48 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/03/21 / 2021-03-07 16:48:25 / March 7, 2021 @ 4:48 pm. Id of earthquake: pr2021066007. Event ids that are associated: us7000dgwv, pr2021066007.

Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 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 Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Punta Cana, Salvaleón de Higüey.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 63 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.57 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.488° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1993° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	51 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	63 km NNE of Otra Banda, 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	2021-03-07 16:48:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-03-07 17:36:18	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	196	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6936	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	192	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	pr2021066007	Id of event.
Event Code	2021066007	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000dgwv,pr2021066007,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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