Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16300005. Id of event: pr16300005. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.2508 West, latitude 18.6928 North, depth = 67 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 67 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 04:12:16 / 4:12 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/10/16 / 2016-10-26 08:12:16 / October 26, 2016 @ 8:12 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guaymate, San Rafael del Yuma, Salvaleón de Higüey. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). The epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 20 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.2508° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6928° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	67 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20km 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	2016-10-26 08:12:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-26 12:29:52	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	148	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	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.07438508	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 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	pr16300005	Id of event.
Event Code	16300005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16300005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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