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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.9759S, -67.8391WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/10/15 / 2015-10-19 20:57:37 / October 19, 2015 @ 8:57 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 30 km (19 miles). The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:57:37 / 3:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.8391° West, latitude 18.9759° North, depth = 30 km. Id of earthquake: pr15292004. Event ids that are associated: pr15292004.

Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 73 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 -67.8391° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9759° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km 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 2015-10-19 20:57:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-19 21:35:02 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.67912635 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 320.4 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 pr15292004 Id of event.
Event Code 15292004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15292004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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