Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.1531 West, latitude 18.1646 North, depth = 68.53 km. The temblor was reported at 06:19:17 / 6:19 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000i2q5. Event ids that are associated: us1000i2q5. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/12/18 / 2018-12-05 11:19:17 / December 5, 2018 @ 11:19 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 68.53 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 53 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.1531° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.1646° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	68.53 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53km 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	2018-12-05 11:19:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-05 11:54:39	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	222	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.409	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	106	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000i2q5	Id of event.
Event Code	1000i2q5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000i2q5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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