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Minor earthquake: M3.43 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.2926S, -67.759WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 103 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (64 miles). Unique identifier: pr2020129008. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020129008. The temblor was detected at 09:24:20 / 9:24 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -67.759° West, 19.2926° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/05/20 / 2020-05-08 14:24:20 / May 8, 2020 @ 2:24 pm.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 103 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 3.43 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.759° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2926° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103km 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 2020-05-08 14:24:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-08 15:44:46 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 181 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9503 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 228 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 pr2020129008 Id of event.
Event Code 2020129008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020129008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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