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Minor earthquake 3.53 mag, 59 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.53 (ml/mb) strikes 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, -68.6135° West, 19.3246° North, depth 63 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pft5, pr2025055001. Id of event: pr2025055001. The 3.53-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:23:59 / 2:23 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/02/25 / 2025-02-24 14:23:59 / February 24, 2025 @ 2:23 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 63 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salvaleón de Higüey, Samaná, Santa Cruz de El Seibo (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.53 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.6135° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3246° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	59 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	2025-02-24 14:23:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-24 19:59:18	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	192	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8433	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	240	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	pr2025055001	Id of event.
Event Code	2025055001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pft5,pr2025055001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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