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Minor earthquake, 3.68 mag was detected near Miches in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.68 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic. Exact location of event, longitude -68.7825 West, latitude 19.3075 North, depth = 35 km. The temblor was detected at 02:43:45 / 2:43 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2025079000. Event ids that are associated: us6000pzvs, pr2025079000. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/03/25 / 2025-03-20 02:43:45 / March 20, 2025 @ 2:43 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guaymate, Las Terrenas, Hato Mayor del Rey (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 45 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.68 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.7825° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3075° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	45 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	2025-03-20 02:43:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-20 03:36:03	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	,us,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8892	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.44 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	244	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	pr2025079000	Id of event.
Event Code	2025079000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pzvs,pr2025079000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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