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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.5148S, -68.1018WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 86 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (53 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 01:48:59 / 1:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.1018 West, latitude 19.5148 North, depth = 3 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/06/19 / 2019-06-10 06:48:59 / June 10, 2019 @ 6:48 am. Event id: pr2019161001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003xki, pr2019161001, pt19161050.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 86 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.1018° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5148° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km 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 2019-06-10 06:48:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-10 09:03:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 285 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 ,us,pr,pt, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.1095 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2019161001 Id of event.
Event Code 2019161001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003xki,pr2019161001,pt19161050, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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