Minor earthquake, 3.51 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.51 (ml/mb) strikes 104 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (65 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.093 West, latitude 19.4826 North, depth = 32 km. Unique identifier: pr2020147014. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020147014. The temblor was reported at 12:48:04 / 12:48 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 32 km (20 miles). Global time and date of event 26/05/20 / 2020-05-26 17:48:04 / May 26, 2020 @ 5:48 pm UTC/GMT.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 104 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.51 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.093° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4826° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	104km 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	2020-05-26 17:48:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-26 18:22:39	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	190	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.258	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	332	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	pr2020147014	Id of event.
Event Code	2020147014	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020147014,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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