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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.0951S, -67.8434WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 81 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (50 miles) on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/07/15 / 2015-07-17 10:10:35 / July 17, 2015 @ 10:10 am. Exact location of event, depth 36 km, -67.8434° West, 19.0951° North. The temblor was reported at 05:10:35 / 5:10 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15198005. Id of event: pr15198005.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 81 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information 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 -67.8434° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0951° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km NE 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 10:10:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-17 11:33:01 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.93334958 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 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 pr15198005 Id of event.
Event Code 15198005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15198005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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