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Minor earthquake, 3.03 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.1113S, -68.0088WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) was reported 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018261025. Id of event: pr2018261025. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70 km (43 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/09/18 / 2018-09-18 20:14:14 / September 18, 2018 @ 8:14 pm. The temblor was reported at 15:14:14 / 3:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.0088 West, latitude 18.1113 North, depth = 70 km.

Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 66 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.03 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0088° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1113° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km 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 2018-09-18 20:14:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-18 23:43:01 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 141 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5486 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 221 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 pr2018261025 Id of event.
Event Code 2018261025 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018261025, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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