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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.2346S, -67.9257WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 88 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (55 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64 km (40 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr15233005. Unique identifier: pr15233005. Exact location, longitude -67.9257° West, latitude 19.2346° North, depth = 64 km. Global time and date of event 21/08/15 / 2015-08-21 05:22:26 / August 21, 2015 @ 5:22 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 00:22:26 / 12:22 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-six 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 88 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9257° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2346° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km 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 2015-08-21 05:22:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-21 08:55:52 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 158 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.83543321 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 262.8 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 pr15233005 Id of event.
Event Code 15233005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15233005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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