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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.2791S, -67.8716WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) was reported 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/12/18 / 2018-12-10 15:24:30 / December 10, 2018 @ 3:24 pm. Event id: pr2018344004. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018344004. Exact location of event, depth 7 km, -67.8716° West, 18.2791° North. The 2.97-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:24:30 / 10:24 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Puerto Real (c. 6 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mayagüez, Aguadilla, Añasco. Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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 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: 65 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8716° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2791° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km ESE 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 2018-12-10 15:24:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-10 19:26:51 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 136 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4063 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 pr2018344004 Id of event.
Event Code 2018344004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018344004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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