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Minor earthquake 3.14 mag, 65 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.1043S, -68.104WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) strikes 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Tuesday. The 3.14-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:15:47 / 8:15 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 53 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.104 West, latitude 19.1043 North, depth = 53 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/09/18 / 2018-09-12 01:15:47 / September 12, 2018 @ 1:15 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018255004. Unique identifier: pr2018255004.

The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Otra Banda, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 65 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.14 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.104° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1043° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km NNE 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 2018-09-12 01:15:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-12 08:36:53 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 152 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 0.6523 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 277 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 pr2018255004 Id of event.
Event Code 2018255004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018255004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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