Minor earthquake, 3.42 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) strikes 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 126 km (78 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.1343 West, latitude 18.1503 North, depth = 126 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/09/18 / 2018-09-11 01:11:04 / September 11, 2018 @ 1:11 am. The temblor was detected at 20:11:04 / 8:11 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018254001. Unique identifier: pr2018254001.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 80 km (49 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 55 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.42 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.1343° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.1503° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	126 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55km 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	2018-09-11 01:11:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-11 09:18:50	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	180	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	0.4396	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	229	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	pr2018254001	Id of event.
Event Code	2018254001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018254001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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