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Minor earthquake, 3.26 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.2841S, -68.202WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.26 (ml/mb) strikes 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 11:32:49 / 11:32 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/02/19 / 2019-02-07 16:32:49 / February 7, 2019 @ 4:32 pm. Id of earthquake: pr2019038021. Event ids that are associated: pr2019038021. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 92 km (57 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -68.202° West, latitude 19.2841° North, depth = 92 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seventy-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and three and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 80 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.26 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.202° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2841° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km 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 16:32:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-07 20:34:56 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 164 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 0.7908 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 207 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 pr2019038021 Id of event.
Event Code 2019038021 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019038021, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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