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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.0914S, -68.0092WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of earthquake, -68.0092° West, 18.0914° North, depth 71.8 km. Event id: us70009ny4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009ny4. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:20:20 / 10:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/05/20 / 2020-05-23 03:20:20 / May 23, 2020 @ 3:20 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 71.8 km (45 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rincón, San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 68 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0092° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0914° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 71.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km 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 2020-05-23 03:20:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-23 03:28:04 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 211 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.831 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70009ny4 Id of event.
Event Code 70009ny4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009ny4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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