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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on April 1, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.644S, -67.7868WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The temblor was picked up at 03:22:23 / 3:22 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 89 km (55 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/04/19 / 2019-04-01 08:22:23 / April 1, 2019 @ 8:22 am. Exact location of earthquake, -67.7868° West, 18.644° North, depth 89 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019091008. Unique identifier: pr2019091008.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moca, Aguadilla, Aguada (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days six hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 65 km E of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7868° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.644° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km E 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 2019-04-01 08:22:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-01 18:45:12 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 127 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 0.9301 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 329 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 pr2019091008 Id of event.
Event Code 2019091008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019091008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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