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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 71 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.9213S, -67.8259WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/07/15 / 2015-07-24 06:43:17 / July 24, 2015 @ 6:43 am. The temblor was picked up at 01:43:17 / 1:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.8259° West, latitude 18.9213° North, depth = 77 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 77 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: pr15205003. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15205003.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana. Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days sixty-three, in the past 30 days seventy-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 71 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8259° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9213° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km 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 2015-07-24 06:43:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-24 07:29:54 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.66385499 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219.6 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 pr15205003 Id of event.
Event Code 15205003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15205003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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