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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/01/20 / 2020-01-17 07:55:50 / January 17, 2020 @ 7:55 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700071j8. Id of event: us700071j8. The temblor was reported at 03:55:50 / 3:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -68.4485° West, 18.8365° North, depth 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 72 km (44 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Romana, Miches, Santa Cruz de El Seibo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 28 km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

Dominican Republic La Romana Miches Punta Cana Salvaleon de Higuey Santa Cruz de El Seibo

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.4485° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8365° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km N 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	2020-01-17 07:55:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-17 08:06:27	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	158	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	0.884	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	187	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	us700071j8	Id of event.
Event Code	700071j8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us700071j8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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