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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.5331S, -67.9404WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 116 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (72 miles) on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 13/04/17 / 2017-04-13 02:03:58 / April 13, 2017 @ 2:03 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 21:03:58 / 9:03 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 97 km (60 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -67.9404° West, latitude 19.5331° North, depth = 97 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr17103000. Unique identifier: pr17103000.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 116 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9404° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5331° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 116km 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 2017-04-13 02:03:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-13 04:09:48 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 178 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 1.09594465 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 277.2 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 pr17103000 Id of event.
Event Code 17103000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17103000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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