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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.5216S, -67.8963WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/07/15 / 2015-07-16 08:44:07 / July 16, 2015 @ 8:44 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15197011. Unique identifier: pr15197011. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 100 km (62 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 03:44:07 / 3:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -67.8963° West, 18.5216° North, depth 100 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla, Aguada, Rincón (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 54 km E of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8963° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5216° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km E 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 2015-07-16 08:44:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-16 13:06:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 148 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 0.45993743 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 183.6 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 pr15197011 Id of event.
Event Code 15197011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15197011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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