Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The temblor was reported at 02:10:16 / 2:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/07/16 / 2016-07-03 07:10:16 / July 3, 2016 @ 7:10 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr16185006. Event ids that are associated: pr16185006. The epicenter was at a depth of 76 km (47 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.1502 West, latitude 18.756 North, depth = 76 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda.

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 five, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 33 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.1502° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.756° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	76 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km 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	2016-07-03 07:10:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-03 13:23:59	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	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.02497774	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	158.4	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	pr16185006	Id of event.
Event Code	16185006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16185006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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