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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.735S, -67.8052WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:48:57 / 1:48 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr15198013. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15198013. Exact location, longitude -67.8052° West, latitude 18.735° North, depth = 88 km. Global time and date of event 17/07/15 / 2015-07-17 06:48:57 / July 17, 2015 @ 6:48 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 88 km (55 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla, Aguada, Rincón (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 65 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8052° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.735° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km ENE 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 2015-07-17 06:48:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-17 18:37:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 158 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 0.58839651 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208.8 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 pr15198013 Id of event.
Event Code 15198013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15198013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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