Minor earthquake: M3.22 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.22 (ml/mb) strikes 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: pr2019107004. Event ids that are associated: pr2019107004. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 111 km (69 miles). Exact location, longitude -68.2846° West, latitude 18.9366° North, depth = 111 km. The temblor was detected at 23:17:43 / 11:17 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/04/19 / 2019-04-17 04:17:43 / April 17, 2019 @ 4:17 am.

Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miches, San Rafael del Yuma, Salvaleón de Higüey.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 41 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.22 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.2846° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9366° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	111 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41km 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	2019-04-17 04:17:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-04-17 09:06:54	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	160	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	6	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4336	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	205	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	pr2019107004	Id of event.
Event Code	2019107004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019107004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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