Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 79 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (49 miles) on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -67.7451° West, 18.9235° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/09/15 / 2015-09-27 13:06:15 / September 27, 2015 @ 1:06 pm. The temblor was picked up at 08:06:15 / 8:06 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr15270038. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15270038.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 79 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.7451° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9235° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	79km 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	2015-09-27 13:06:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-27 19:10:27	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	129	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.59288809	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	324	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	pr15270038	Id of event.
Event Code	15270038	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15270038,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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