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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.2704S, -67.8392WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 96 kilometers (60 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt20127001, us70009b9r. Id of event: us70009b9r. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:00:36 / 2:00 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 06/05/20 / 2020-05-06 19:00:36 / May 6, 2020 @ 7:00 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.8392 West, latitude 19.2704 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days seventy-three and in the last 365 days one thousand and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 96 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8392° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2704° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96km 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 2020-05-06 19:00:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-06 19:13:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 340 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 ,pt,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 1.055 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70009b9r Id of event.
Event Code 70009b9r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20127001,us70009b9r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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