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Minor earthquake, 3.23 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 21:36:14 / 9:36 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2018108001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018108001. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 110 km (68 miles). Global time and date of event 18/04/18 / 2018-04-18 01:36:14 / April 18, 2018 @ 1:36 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -68.3323° West, 18.7486° North, depth 110 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miches, La Romana, Santa Cruz de El Seibo. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Every 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 eleven, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. 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: 19 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

Dominican Republic La Romana Miches Punta Cana Salvaleon de Higuey Santa Cruz de El Seibo

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.23 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.3323° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.7486° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	110 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km 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	2018-04-18 01:36:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-18 05:34:43	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	161	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	0.2398	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	262	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	pr2018108001	Id of event.
Event Code	2018108001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018108001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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