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Minor earthquake: M3.28 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on February 1, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0215S, -68.0516WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Unique identifier: pr2020032007. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020032007. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/02/20 / 2020-02-01 05:54:13 / February 1, 2020 @ 5:54 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 53 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.28-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:54:13 / 12:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -68.0516° West, 19.0215° North, depth 53 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Otra Banda, Punta Cana. The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days one thousand and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 61 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.28 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0516° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0215° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km 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 2020-02-01 05:54:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-01 06:36:31 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 166 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8565 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 331 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 pr2020032007 Id of event.
Event Code 2020032007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020032007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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