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Minor earthquake, 3.02 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on January 26, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.6906S, -67.6905WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 143 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (89 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:48:04 / 11:48 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 74 km (46 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2019026003. Event ids that are associated: pr2019026003. Exact location of event, longitude -67.6905 West, latitude 19.6906 North, depth = 74 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/01/19 / 2019-01-26 04:48:04 / January 26, 2019 @ 4:48 am.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-seven 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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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 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: 143 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.02 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6905° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6906° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 143km 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 2019-01-26 04:48:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-26 08:35:41 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 140 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.3534 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 281 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 pr2019026003 Id of event.
Event Code 2019026003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019026003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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