Minor earthquake, 3.13 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The epicenter was at a depth of 126 km (78 miles). The temblor was reported at 21:51:54 / 9:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.4616 West, latitude 18.5348 North, depth = 126 km. Id of earthquake: pr2019216001. Event ids that are associated: pr2019216001. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/08/19 / 2019-08-04 01:51:54 / August 4, 2019 @ 1:51 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 55 km (34 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Miches, Santa Cruz de El Seibo, La Romana. Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 7 km SW of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.13 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.4616° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.5348° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	126 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km SW 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	2019-08-04 01:51:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-04 05:07:28	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	151	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.9938	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 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	pr2019216001	Id of event.
Event Code	2019216001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019216001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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