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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.2596S, -67.9848WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:54:32 / 9:54 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/04/17 / 2017-04-23 02:54:32 / April 23, 2017 @ 2:54 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 161 km, -67.9848° West, 18.2596° North. Unique identifier: pr2017113000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2017113000. The epicenter was at a depth of 161 km (100 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Puerto Real (c. 6 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto Real, Salvaleón de Higüey, Aguada (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 56 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9848° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2596° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 161 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km SE 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 2017-04-23 02:54:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-23 15:44:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 211 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.898 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 328 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 pr2017113000 Id of event.
Event Code 2017113000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017113000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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