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Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.5363S, -67.9613WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 115 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (71 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40 km (25 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018255006. Unique identifier: pr2018255006. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/09/18 / 2018-09-12 01:40:43 / September 12, 2018 @ 1:40 am. Exact location, longitude -67.9613° West, latitude 19.5363° North, depth = 40 km. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:40:43 / 8:40 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 115 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9613° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5363° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 115km 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 2018-09-12 01:40:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-12 08:37:44 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 123 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.1053 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 337 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 pr2018255006 Id of event.
Event Code 2018255006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018255006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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