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Minor earthquake, 3.82 mag strikes near Samaná in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.82 (ml/mb) strikes 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Samaná in Dominican Republic on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 50 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 02:12:05 / 2:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.9875 West, latitude 19.3855 North, depth = 50 km. Unique identifier: pr2024152000. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mp49, pr2024152000. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/05/24 / 2024-05-31 02:12:05 / May 31, 2024 @ 2:12 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (46 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Sánchez (c. 11 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hato Mayor del Rey, Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Sánchez (min 5000 pop).

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 41 km ENE of Samaná, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.82 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.9875° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3855° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	50 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41 km ENE of Samaná, 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	2024-05-31 02:12:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-31 04:30:25	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	224	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.0888	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	257	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	pr2024152000	Id of event.
Event Code	2024152000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mp49,pr2024152000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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