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Minor earthquake: M3.68 quake has struck near Miches in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on November 7, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9938S, -68.7361WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.68 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic. The temblor was reported at 07:08:25 / 7:08 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2024312002. Unique identifier: pr2024312002. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/11/24 / 2024-11-07 07:08:25 / November 7, 2024 @ 7:08 am. Exact location of event, depth 67 km, -68.7361° West, 18.9938° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 67 km (42 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quisqueya, San Pedro de Macorís, Sabana de La Mar (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days ninety-eight 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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: 32 km E of Miches, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.68 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.7361° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9938° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 km 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 2024-11-07 07:08:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-07 08:09:29 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 208 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5404 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 pr2024312002 Id of event.
Event Code 2024312002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2024312002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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