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Minor earthquake, 3.43 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) strikes 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/12/17 / 2017-12-28 08:02:00 / December 28, 2017 @ 8:02 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017362000, us1000bx40. Id of event: pr2017362000. Exact location, longitude -68.4606° West, latitude 18.9835° North, depth = 4 km. The temblor was detected at 03:02:00 / 3:02 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Romana, Guaymate, San Rafael del Yuma. Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 60 km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.43 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.4606° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9835° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60km N 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	2017-12-28 08:02:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-28 10:59:07	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	181	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4762	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	188	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	pr2017362000	Id of event.
Event Code	2017362000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017362000,us1000bx40,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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