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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 106.85 km (66 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.1779 West, latitude 18.6333 North, depth = 106.85 km. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:43:28 / 6:43 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007aye. Id of event: us60007aye. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/01/20 / 2020-01-19 22:43:28 / January 19, 2020 @ 10:43 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Rafael del Yuma, Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

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

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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. 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: 24 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.1779° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	106.85 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km ENE 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	2020-01-19 22:43:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-19 22:55:20	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	178	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	1.025	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	181	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	us60007aye	Id of event.
Event Code	60007aye	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007aye,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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