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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.0144S, -67.763WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 82 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (51 miles). Unique identifier: pr15266001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15266001. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.763 West, latitude 19.0144 North, depth = 69 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 69 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 00:48:35 / 12:48 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/09/15 / 2015-09-23 05:48:35 / September 23, 2015 @ 5:48 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 82 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.763° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0144° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km 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 2015-09-23 05:48:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-23 06:44:20 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 168 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6818213 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 226.8 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 pr15266001 Id of event.
Event Code 15266001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15266001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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