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Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.4687S, -68.4835WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/03/16 / 2016-03-13 14:53:01 / March 13, 2016 @ 2:53 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 81 km (50 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -68.4835° West, 18.4687° North, depth 81 km. Unique identifier: pr16073004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16073004. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:53:01 / 10:53 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate, La Romana (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 52 km (32 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km SSW of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4835° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4687° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SSW 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 2016-03-13 14:53:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-13 15:37:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1060012 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 pr16073004 Id of event.
Event Code 16073004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16073004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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