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Minor earthquake, 3.42 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.9356S, -67.9755WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location, longitude -67.9755° West, latitude 18.9356° North, depth = 100 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 100 km (62 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017223002. Id of event: pr2017223002. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/08/17 / 2017-08-11 01:43:53 / August 11, 2017 @ 1:43 am. The 3.42-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:43:53 / 8:43 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Otra Banda, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 59 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.42 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9755° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9356° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km 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 2017-08-11 01:43:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-11 04:04:41 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 180 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 0.5853 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 237 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 pr2017223002 Id of event.
Event Code 2017223002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017223002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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