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Minor earthquake 3.32 mag, 134 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on December 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.7233S, -67.9788WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 134 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (83 miles). Unique identifier: pr2018342014. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018342014. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.32-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:08:17 / 5:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.9788 West, latitude 19.7233 North, depth = 37 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/12/18 / 2018-12-08 22:08:17 / December 8, 2018 @ 10:08 pm.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 134 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.32 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9788° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.7233° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 134km 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 2018-12-08 22:08:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-09 02:20:54 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 170 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.5264 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 256 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 pr2018342014 Id of event.
Event Code 2018342014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018342014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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