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


Earthquake location 18.9626S, -67.9968WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/07/15 / 2015-07-17 01:10:26 / July 17, 2015 @ 1:10 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 31 km (19 miles). Exact location, longitude -67.9968° West, latitude 18.9626° North, depth = 31 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:10:26 / 8:10 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr15198006. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15198006.

Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Otra Banda, Punta Cana. Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 60 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9968° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9626° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km 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 2015-07-17 01:10:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-17 11:51:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 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 1.16601324 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 327.6 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 pr15198006 Id of event.
Event Code 15198006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15198006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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