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Minor earthquake 3.71 mag, 35 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.71 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The 3.71-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:02:58 / 6:02 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020111020. Unique identifier: pr2020111020. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.2255 West, latitude 18.8575 North, depth = 84 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 84 km (52 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/04/20 / 2020-04-20 11:02:58 / April 20, 2020 @ 11:02 am.

Epicenter of the event was 58 km (36 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days nine hundred and six 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 35 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.71 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.2255° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8575° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35km 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	2020-04-20 11:02:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-20 11:48:42	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	212	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8836	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	221	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	pr2020111020	Id of event.
Event Code	2020111020	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020111020,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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