Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -68.0367° West, latitude 18.6518° North, depth = 77 km. The temblor was picked up at 21:31:37 / 9:31 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16234002. Id of event: pr16234002. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/08/16 / 2016-08-21 02:31:37 / August 21, 2016 @ 2:31 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 77 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Rafael del Yuma, Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 39 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.0367° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6518° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39km ENE 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	2016-08-21 02:31:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-21 06:05:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	121	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	6	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.35393622	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	183.6	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	pr16234002	Id of event.
Event Code	16234002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16234002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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