Minor earthquake, 3.15 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -68.2481 West, latitude 18.4625 North, depth = 99 km. Id of earthquake: pr2018187004. Event ids that are associated: pr2018187004. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/18 / 2018-07-06 02:01:55 / July 6, 2018 @ 2:01 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 99 km (62 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.15-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:01:55 / 10:01 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guaymate, La Romana, Salvaleón de Higüey (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.2481° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.4625° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	99 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km SE 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	2018-07-06 02:01:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-06 05:23:26	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	153	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	1.1369	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	175	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	pr2018187004	Id of event.
Event Code	2018187004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018187004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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