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Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.1811S, -68.184WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/03/18 / 2018-03-31 03:26:58 / March 31, 2018 @ 3:26 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2018090003. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018090003. The temblor was picked up at 22:26:58 / 10:26 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 91 km (57 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -68.184° West, 19.1811° North, depth 91 km.

Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Otra Banda, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-six 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 70 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.184° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1811° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km 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 2018-03-31 03:26:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-31 08:54:51 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 138 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 1.2885 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 224 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 pr2018090003 Id of event.
Event Code 2018090003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018090003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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