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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.9206S, -67.994WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Monday. Unique identifier: pr15215011. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15215011. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.994 West, latitude 18.9206 North, depth = 24 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:28:56 / 6:28 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/08/15 / 2015-08-03 23:28:56 / August 3, 2015 @ 11:28 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Otra Banda, Punta Cana. Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days eighty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 57 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.994° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9206° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km 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 2015-08-03 23:28:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-03 23:51:27 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 138 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7231438 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 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 pr15215011 Id of event.
Event Code 15215011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15215011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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