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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 79 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.9598S, -67.7622WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.7622 West, latitude 18.9598 North, depth = 75 km. The temblor was picked up at 14:29:05 / 2:29 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 75 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/07/15 / 2015-07-16 19:29:05 / July 16, 2015 @ 7:29 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr15197028. Event ids that are associated: pr15197028.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 79 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 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7622° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9598° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km 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 2015-07-16 19:29:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-17 01:25:36 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 168 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.63241396 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 237.6 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 pr15197028 Id of event.
Event Code 15197028 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15197028, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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