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Minor earthquake, 3.34 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.5538S, -68.1551WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.34 (ml/mb) was reported 110 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (68 miles) on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 09:32:00 / 9:32 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 27/09/18 / 2018-09-27 14:32:00 / September 27, 2018 @ 2:32 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.1551 West, latitude 19.5538 North, depth = 31 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018270007. Id of event: pr2018270007.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 three, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-seven 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. 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: 110 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.34 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.1551° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5538° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 110km 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 2018-09-27 14:32:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-27 15:50:54 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 172 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.0642 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 272 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 pr2018270007 Id of event.
Event Code 2018270007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018270007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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