Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of event, depth 101 km, -68.2042° West, 18.9874° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 101 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 18:14:56 / 6:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/05/16 / 2016-05-16 23:14:56 / May 16, 2016 @ 11:14 pm. Event id: pr16137010. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16137010.

Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 49 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.2042° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9874° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	101 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49km NNE 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	2016-05-16 23:14:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-17 00:54:30	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.97736703	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	176.4	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	pr16137010	Id of event.
Event Code	16137010	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16137010,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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