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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.2005S, -67.7311WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 98 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (61 miles) on Saturday. Unique identifier: pr2020179006. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000ad14, pr2020179006. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/06/20 / 2020-06-27 11:45:18 / June 27, 2020 @ 11:45 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 26 km (16 miles). Exact location of event, depth 26 km, -67.7311° West, 19.2005° North. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:45:18 / 11:45 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days one thousand and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 98 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7311° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2005° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98 km 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 2020-06-27 11:45:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-27 12:21:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 199 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8541 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 257 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 pr2020179006 Id of event.
Event Code 2020179006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ad14,pr2020179006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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