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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.9433S, -67.8488WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/02/20 / 2020-02-02 02:08:10 / February 2, 2020 @ 2:08 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007mhj. Id of event: us60007mhj. Exact location of earthquake, -67.8488° West, 18.9433° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:08:10 / 9:08 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days fifty-five, in the past 30 days fifty-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8488° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9433° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km 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 2020-02-02 02:08:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-02 02:21:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 129 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.844 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 330 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60007mhj Id of event.
Event Code 60007mhj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007mhj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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