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Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on January 2, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4648S, -68.4693WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of earthquake, -68.4693° West, 18.4648° North, depth 116 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:47:43 / 5:47 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 116 km (72 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/01/19 / 2019-01-01 21:47:43 / January 1, 2019 @ 9:47 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019001007. Unique identifier: pr2019001007.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate, La Romana (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 14 km SSW of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4693° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4648° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 116 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SSW 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 2019-01-01 21:47:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-01 23:54:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 133 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 0.1007 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 pr2019001007 Id of event.
Event Code 2019001007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019001007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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