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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/08/15 / 2015-08-31 07:58:19 / August 31, 2015 @ 7:58 am. Exact location of event, longitude -68.398 West, latitude 18.7432 North, depth = 118 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 118 km (73 miles). The temblor was detected at 03:58:19 / 3:58 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr15243006. Unique identifier: pr15243006.

Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Miches, La Romana, Santa Cruz de El Seibo.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.398° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.7432° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	118 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km N 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	2015-08-31 07:58:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-31 08:53:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	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	199	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2290704	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	295.2	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	pr15243006	Id of event.
Event Code	15243006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15243006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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