Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 125 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (78 miles). Id of earthquake: pr15183000. Event ids that are associated: pr15183000. The temblor was reported at 20:35:49 / 8:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 44 km, -67.8811° West, 19.6° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/07/15 / 2015-07-02 01:35:49 / July 2, 2015 @ 1:35 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 44 km (27 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 125 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.8811° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.6° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	44 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	125km NNE of Punta Cana, 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	2015-07-02 01:35:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-02 04:15:28	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	178	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.34118472	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	327.6	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	pr15183000	Id of event.
Event Code	15183000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15183000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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