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Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.0365S, -68.0925WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Global time and date of event 10/11/18 / 2018-11-10 17:25:35 / November 10, 2018 @ 5:25 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr2018314011. Event ids that are associated: pr2018314011. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -68.0925 West, latitude 19.0365 North, depth = 49 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:25:35 / 12:25 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Otra Banda, Punta Cana.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 60 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0925° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0365° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km NNE 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 2018-11-10 17:25:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-10 18:52:07 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 137 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 0.5971 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 236 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 pr2018314011 Id of event.
Event Code 2018314011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018314011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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