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


Earthquake location 19.0832S, -67.8301WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 82 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (51 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/08/15 / 2015-08-13 13:35:03 / August 13, 2015 @ 1:35 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.8301 West, latitude 19.0832 North, depth = 26 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:35:03 / 8:35 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr15225004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15225004. The epicenter was at a depth of 26 km (16 miles).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 82 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8301° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0832° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km 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 2015-08-13 13:35:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-13 14:13:55 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.14535199 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 313.2 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 pr15225004 Id of event.
Event Code 15225004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15225004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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