Minor earthquake, 3.33 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Event id: pr71460008. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71460008. The temblor was detected at 10:10:48 / 10:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.916833333333° West, latitude 18.254166666667° North, depth = 98.22 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/09/24 / 2024-09-14 10:10:48 / September 14, 2024 @ 10:10 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 98.22 km (61 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto Real, Aguada, Rincón (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Puerto Real (c. 6 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days fifty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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: 62 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.33 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.916833333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.254166666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	98.22 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	62 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	2024-09-14 10:10:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-14 11:32:02	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	171	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5112	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	184	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	pr71460008	Id of event.
Event Code	71460008	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71460008,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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