Minor earthquake, 3.07 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Event id: pr2018295010. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018295010. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/10/18 / 2018-10-22 09:13:14 / October 22, 2018 @ 9:13 am. The 3.07-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:13:14 / 5:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.3138 West, latitude 18.7245 North, depth = 111 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 111 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Romana, Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate (min 5000 pop).

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 sixteen, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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: 18 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.07 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.3138° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.7245° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	111 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km 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	2018-10-22 09:13:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-22 12:38:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	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	145	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	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2212	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	274	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	pr2018295010	Id of event.
Event Code	2018295010	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018295010,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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