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Minor earthquake, 3.38 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 127 km (79 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:49:10 / 12:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -68.4061° West, 19.0285° North, depth 127 km. Unique identifier: pr2018087002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018087002. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/03/18 / 2018-03-28 17:49:10 / March 28, 2018 @ 5:49 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaymate, Santa Cruz de El Seibo, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 twenty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.38 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.4061° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0285° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	127 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49km 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	2018-03-28 17:49:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-28 18:25:21	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	176	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	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.5717	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	349	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	pr2018087002	Id of event.
Event Code	2018087002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018087002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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