Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) strikes 101 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (63 miles) on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 65 km, -67.8748° West, 19.3453° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 65 km (40 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/02/18 / 2018-02-03 01:43:17 / February 3, 2018 @ 1:43 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 20:43:17 / 8:43 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018034002. Id of event: pr2018034002.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 101 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.8748° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3453° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	65 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	101km 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	2018-02-03 01:43:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-03 06:36:34	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	135	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.9735	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	239	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	pr2018034002	Id of event.
Event Code	2018034002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018034002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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