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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.1045S, -68.0869WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -68.0869 West, latitude 18.1045 North, depth = 89.05 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 89.05 km (55 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:07:53 / 2:07 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000d3ey. Unique identifier: us7000d3ey. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/01/21 / 2021-01-26 14:07:53 / January 26, 2021 @ 2:07 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 62 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0869° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1045° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 89.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62 km SSE 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 14:07:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-26 15:15:06 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 138 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 0.494 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 228 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 us7000d3ey Id of event.
Event Code 7000d3ey An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d3ey, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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