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Minor earthquake, 3.29 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57 km (35 miles). The 3.29-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:04:24 / 5:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.2698 West, latitude 18.6903 North, depth = 57 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017138014. Id of event: pr2017138014. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/05/17 / 2017-05-18 21:04:24 / May 18, 2017 @ 9:04 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, La Romana, Guaymate. Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 18 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.29 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.2698° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6903° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	57 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km 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	2017-05-18 21:04:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-20 19:56:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	167	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2087	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	262	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	pr2017138014	Id of event.
Event Code	2017138014	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017138014,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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