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Minor earthquake: M3.22 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.22 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The 3.22-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:33:43 / 9:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/11/17 / 2017-11-26 02:33:43 / November 26, 2017 @ 2:33 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.0223 West, latitude 18.3468 North, depth = 111 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 111 km (69 miles). Event id: pr2017330003. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017330003.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 twelve, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 48 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.22 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.0223° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.3468° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	111 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48km ESE 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	2017-11-26 02:33:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-26 04:23:12	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	160	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	0.5444	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	330	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	pr2017330003	Id of event.
Event Code	2017330003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017330003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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