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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.1534S, -68.0325WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The epicenter was at a depth of 34 km (21 miles). The temblor was reported at 21:41:22 / 9:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.0325 West, latitude 19.1534 North, depth = 34 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15198000. Id of event: pr15198000. Global time and date of event 17/07/15 / 2015-07-17 02:41:22 / July 17, 2015 @ 2:41 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana. Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 75 km (46 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 74 km NNE 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 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0325° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1534° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km 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 2015-07-17 02:41:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-17 06:47:29 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 138 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.92616306 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 334.8 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 pr15198000 Id of event.
Event Code 15198000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15198000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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