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Minor earthquake: M3.66 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.99S, -67.7253WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.66 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 33 km (21 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/06/20 / 2020-06-29 12:10:08 / June 29, 2020 @ 12:10 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -67.7253 West, latitude 18.99 North, depth = 33 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000aeaf, pr2020181006. Unique identifier: pr2020181006. The 3.66-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:10:08 / 12:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days sixty-three and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 84 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.66 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7253° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.99° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84 km ENE 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 2020-06-29 12:10:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-29 13:05:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 206 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6537 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241 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 pr2020181006 Id of event.
Event Code 2020181006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000aeaf,pr2020181006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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