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Minor earthquake, 3.53 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on May 7, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1028S, -67.899WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.53 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The temblor was reported at 15:56:07 / 3:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.899 West, latitude 19.1028 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/05/20 / 2020-05-07 20:56:07 / May 7, 2020 @ 8:56 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2020128005. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020128005. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

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

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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: 78 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.53 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.899° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1028° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km 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 2020-05-07 20:56:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-07 21:49:59 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 192 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.832 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 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 pr2020128005 Id of event.
Event Code 2020128005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020128005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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