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Minor earthquake 3.21 mag, 51 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.3778S, -67.968WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) strikes 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude -67.968 West, latitude 18.3778 North, depth = 88 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/04/18 / 2018-04-13 14:59:37 / April 13, 2018 @ 2:59 pm. The 3.21-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:59:37 / 9:59 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 88 km (55 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr2018103005. Event ids that are associated: pr2018103005.

The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Otra Banda, Rincón, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 51 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.21 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.968° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.3778° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km ESE 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 2018-04-13 14:59:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-13 20:10:12 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 159 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 0.4352 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 pr2018103005 Id of event.
Event Code 2018103005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018103005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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