Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/03/16 / 2016-03-13 14:53:01 / March 13, 2016 @ 2:53 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 81 km (50 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -68.4835° West, 18.4687° North, depth 81 km. Unique identifier: pr16073004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16073004. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:53:01 / 10:53 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate, La Romana (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 52 km (32 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 15 km SSW of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.4835° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.4687° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	81 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km SSW 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	2016-03-13 14:53:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-13 15:37:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	158	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1060012	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.03 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	162	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	pr16073004	Id of event.
Event Code	16073004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16073004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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