Minor earthquake: M3.03 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 82 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 05:46:00 / 5:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/01/18 / 2018-01-24 09:46:00 / January 24, 2018 @ 9:46 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018024003. Id of event: pr2018024003. Exact location, longitude -68.391° West, latitude 18.5218° North, depth = 82 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Event epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate, La Romana (min 5000 pop).

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

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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 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: 6 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.03 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.391° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.5218° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	82 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km SSE 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	2018-01-24 09:46:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-24 12:24:57	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	141	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	1.3503	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.36 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	170	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	pr2018024003	Id of event.
Event Code	2018024003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018024003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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