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Minor earthquake, 3.09 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on August 4, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.127S, -68.0005WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) strikes 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 06:54:39 / 6:54 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/08/19 / 2019-08-04 11:54:39 / August 4, 2019 @ 11:54 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.0005 West, latitude 18.127 North, depth = 92 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019216005. Unique identifier: pr2019216005. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 92 km (57 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana. Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 65 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0005° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.127° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km 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 2019-08-04 11:54:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-04 16:43:39 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5814 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 198 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 pr2019216005 Id of event.
Event Code 2019216005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019216005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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