Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 86 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 86 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (53 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15206014. Id of event: pr15206014. The epicenter was at a depth of 62 km (39 miles). The temblor was picked up at 14:48:47 / 2:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.7878 West, latitude 19.103 North, depth = 62 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/07/15 / 2015-07-25 19:48:47 / July 25, 2015 @ 7:48 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days sixty-seven, in the past 30 days seventy-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.7878° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.103° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	62 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	86km 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	2015-07-25 19:48:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-25 20:48:43	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	121	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.81207702	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	241.2	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	pr15206014	Id of event.
Event Code	15206014	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15206014,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 86 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

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