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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 92 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.1819S, -67.7975WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 92 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (57 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.7975 West, latitude 19.1819 North, depth = 54 km. Global time and date of event 04/11/15 / 2015-11-04 23:51:11 / November 4, 2015 @ 11:51 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 54 km (34 miles). Event id: pr15308011. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15308011. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:51:11 / 6:51 pm (local time epicenter).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 92 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7975° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1819° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km 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 2015-11-04 23:51:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-05 00:50:28 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.86328099 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 252 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 pr15308011 Id of event.
Event Code 15308011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15308011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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