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Minor earthquake, 3.09 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.3403S, -68.204WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 86 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (53 miles). The 3.09-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:22:26 / 10:22 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019186001. Unique identifier: pr2019186001. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/07/19 / 2019-07-05 03:22:26 / July 5, 2019 @ 3:22 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 88 km (55 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -68.204 West, latitude 19.3403 North, depth = 88 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 86 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.204° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3403° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88 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 2019-07-05 03:22:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-05 08:04:23 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 147 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9855 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 209 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 pr2019186001 Id of event.
Event Code 2019186001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019186001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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