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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.9354S, -67.9169WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 42 km (26 miles). The temblor was picked up at 10:26:22 / 10:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.9169 West, latitude 18.9354 North, depth = 42 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15208005. Unique identifier: pr15208005. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/07/15 / 2015-07-27 15:26:22 / July 27, 2015 @ 3:26 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days seventy-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-four 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 64 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 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9169° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9354° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km 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 2015-07-27 15:26:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-27 17:50:22 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 158 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.24865824 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 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 pr15208005 Id of event.
Event Code 15208005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15208005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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