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Minor earthquake, 3.23 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.0848S, -67.7396WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 89 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (55 miles). Exact location, longitude -67.7396° West, latitude 19.0848° North, depth = 11 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/12/19 / 2019-12-17 16:37:21 / December 17, 2019 @ 4:37 pm. Event id: pr2019351032. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019351032. The temblor was detected at 11:37:21 / 11:37 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11 km (7 miles).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days sixty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-nine and in the last 365 days nine hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 89 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.23 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7396° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0848° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km NE 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 2019-12-17 16:37:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-17 17:46:13 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 161 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 0.7472 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 317 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 pr2019351032 Id of event.
Event Code 2019351032 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019351032, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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