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Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.5401S, -68.0988WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 110 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (68 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr2018254014. Event ids that are associated: pr2018254014. Exact location of event, depth 39 km, -68.0988° West, 19.5401° North. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:11:50 / 6:11 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/09/18 / 2018-09-11 23:11:50 / September 11, 2018 @ 11:11 pm UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 110 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 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0988° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5401° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39 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 2018-09-11 23:11:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-12 08:33:21 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 122 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.0644 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 291 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 pr2018254014 Id of event.
Event Code 2018254014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018254014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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