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Minor earthquake, 3.13 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.2078S, -68.0965WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The 3.13-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:25:16 / 10:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -68.0965° West, latitude 19.2078° North, depth = 7 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr2019143002. Event ids that are associated: pr2019143002. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/05/19 / 2019-05-23 03:25:16 / May 23, 2019 @ 3:25 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-five 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 76 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 3.13 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0965° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2078° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km 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 2019-05-23 03:25:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-23 07:22:04 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 151 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.0947 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 201 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 pr2019143002 Id of event.
Event Code 2019143002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019143002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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