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Minor earthquake: M2.84 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.2581S, -68.2141WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 77 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (48 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 84 km (52 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr2019162002. Event ids that are associated: pr2019162002. The temblor was reported at 00:58:38 / 12:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.2141 West, latitude 19.2581 North, depth = 84 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/06/19 / 2019-06-11 05:58:38 / June 11, 2019 @ 5:58 am.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 77 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 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.2141° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2581° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km 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 2019-06-11 05:58:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-11 09:13:33 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 124 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9745 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 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 pr2019162002 Id of event.
Event Code 2019162002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019162002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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