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Minor earthquake: M3.09 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.3803S, -67.9223WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of earthquake, -67.9223° West, 18.3803° North, depth 76 km. The temblor was reported at 03:07:37 / 3:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/05/18 / 2018-05-11 08:07:37 / May 11, 2018 @ 8:07 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr2018131005. Event ids that are associated: pr2018131005. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 76 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Aguada, Rincón (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 71 km (44 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).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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 two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 55 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9223° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.3803° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km 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 2018-05-11 08:07:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-11 11:55:10 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 147 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4781 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 pr2018131005 Id of event.
Event Code 2018131005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018131005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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