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Minor earthquake, 3.22 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.032S, -68.2093WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.22 (ml/mb) was reported 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Wednesday. The temblor was reported at 19:46:50 / 7:46 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/02/19 / 2019-02-07 00:46:50 / February 7, 2019 @ 12:46 am. Id of earthquake: pr2019038002. Event ids that are associated: pr2019038002. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 108 km (67 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -68.2093° West, latitude 19.032° North, depth = 108 km.

Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda, Punta Cana.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eighty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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 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: 53 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.22 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.2093° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.032° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 108 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km 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 2019-02-07 00:46:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-07 06:50:33 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 160 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 1.5036 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223 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 pr2019038002 Id of event.
Event Code 2019038002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019038002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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