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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of event, longitude -68.0491 West, latitude 18.5655 North, depth = 90 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/12/15 / 2015-12-25 04:17:39 / December 25, 2015 @ 4:17 am. The temblor was reported at 23:17:39 / 11:17 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr15359001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15359001. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 90 km (56 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salvaleón de Higüey, San Rafael del Yuma, Otra Banda (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 37 km E of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.0491° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.5655° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	90 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37km E 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	2015-12-25 04:17:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-25 04:46:00	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	211	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.56953189	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 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	pr15359001	Id of event.
Event Code	15359001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15359001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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