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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.1327S, -68.2135WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/11/15 / 2015-11-19 22:14:49 / November 19, 2015 @ 10:14 pm. The temblor was picked up at 17:14:49 / 5:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.2135 West, latitude 19.1327 North, depth = 25 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15323008. Unique identifier: pr15323008.

The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda, Punta Cana.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 64 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.2135° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1327° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km NNE 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 2015-11-19 22:14:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-19 23:31:01 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 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.63600722 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 273.6 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 pr15323008 Id of event.
Event Code 15323008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15323008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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