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Minor earthquake 3.17 mag, 56 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.0796S, -68.299WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/03/19 / 2019-03-27 01:29:56 / March 27, 2019 @ 1:29 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 91 km (57 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.299 West, latitude 19.0796 North, depth = 91 km. The temblor was detected at 20:29:56 / 8:29 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2019086002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019086002.

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miches, Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 56 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.17 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.299° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0796° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km 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 2019-03-27 01:29:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-27 05:09:25 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 155 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5717 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 193 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 pr2019086002 Id of event.
Event Code 2019086002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019086002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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