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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.315S, -68.0176WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/04/19 / 2019-04-06 20:19:32 / April 6, 2019 @ 8:19 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 82 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 15:19:32 / 3:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.0176 West, latitude 18.315 North, depth = 82 km. Id of earthquake: pr2019096019. Event ids that are associated: pr2019096019.

Close 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 San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana. The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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 earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 50 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0176° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.315° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km SE 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 2019-04-06 20:19:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-07 01:00:08 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 121 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4146 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 pr2019096019 Id of event.
Event Code 2019096019 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019096019, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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