Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) strikes 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Saturday. Global time and date of event 07/09/19 / 2019-09-07 17:38:45 / September 7, 2019 @ 5:38 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -68.0835° West, 18.7718° North, depth 77 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 77 km (48 miles). The temblor was reported at 12:38:45 / 12:38 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2019250005. Event ids that are associated: pr2019250005.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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 two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days six hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.0835° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.7718° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39km ENE 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	2019-09-07 17:38:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-07 18:15:31	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	128	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.7178	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	164	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	pr2019250005	Id of event.
Event Code	2019250005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019250005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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