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Light earthquake 4.67 mag, 103 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.4196S, -68.0036WA light earthquake magnitude 4.67 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 103 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (64 miles). Unique identifier: pr2018341005. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000i4dh, pt18341050, pr2018341005. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 13:25:50 / 1:25 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/12/18 / 2018-12-07 18:25:50 / December 7, 2018 @ 6:25 pm. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -68.0036° West, 19.4196° North.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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. 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: 103 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.67 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0036° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4196° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103km 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 2018-12-07 18:25:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-07 20:20:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 336 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,pt,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9813 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 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 pr2018341005 Id of event.
Event Code 2018341005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000i4dh,pt18341050,pr2018341005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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