Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 94 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (58 miles) on Friday. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:38:37 / 9:38 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 18.05 km (11 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/03/21 / 2021-03-12 21:38:37 / March 12, 2021 @ 9:38 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000diy9. Unique identifier: us7000diy9. Exact location, longitude -67.7232° West, latitude 19.1355° North, depth = 18.05 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 94 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.7232° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1355° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.05 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	94 km NE 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	2021-03-12 21:38:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-03-12 21:47:14	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	168	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	0.877	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	225	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	us7000diy9	Id of event.
Event Code	7000diy9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000diy9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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