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Minor earthquake, 3.39 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.39 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. All ids that are associated to the event: pr71458333. Unique identifier: pr71458333. The temblor was picked up at 12:40:03 / 12:40 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/08/24 / 2024-08-27 12:40:03 / August 27, 2024 @ 12:40 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 78.92 km (49 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -68.215333333333 West, latitude 18.272333333333 North, depth = 78.92 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Romana, Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda. The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Dominican Republic La Romana Otra Banda Punta Cana Salvaleon de Higuey San Rafael del Yuma

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.39 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.215333333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.272333333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	78.92 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39 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	2024-08-27 12:40:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-27 13:47:16	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	177	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2876	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	192	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	pr71458333	Id of event.
Event Code	71458333	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71458333,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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