Minor earthquake, 3.42 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) strikes 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Tuesday. The 3.42-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:07:55 / 2:07 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 26/01/21 / 2021-01-26 14:07:55 / January 26, 2021 @ 2:07 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 92 km, -68.0296° West, 18.2198° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 92 km (57 miles). Event id: pr2021026007. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000d3ey, pr2021026007.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rincón, Otra Banda, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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: 56 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.42 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.0296° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.2198° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	92 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56 km SE 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	2021-01-26 14:07:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-26 15:26:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	180	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	,us,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4585	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.43 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	164	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	pr2021026007	Id of event.
Event Code	2021026007	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000d3ey,pr2021026007,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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