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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on January 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.4966S, -68.2711WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 87 km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (54 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:39:33 / 7:39 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: pr2019016000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j4cc, pr2019016000, pt19016050. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 84 km (52 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/01/19 / 2019-01-16 00:39:33 / January 16, 2019 @ 12:39 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.2711 West, latitude 19.4966 North, depth = 84 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 87 km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.2711° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4966° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km N 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 2019-01-16 00:39:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-16 02:21:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 312 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,pt, 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 0.9888 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 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 pr2019016000 Id of event.
Event Code 2019016000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j4cc,pr2019016000,pt19016050, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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