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Minor earthquake: M3.26 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.3285S, -68.2143WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.26 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 60 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (37 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 100 km (62 miles). Global time and date of event 03/02/19 / 2019-02-03 11:26:20 / February 3, 2019 @ 11:26 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 100 km, -68.2143° West, 19.3285° North. Unique identifier: pr2019034008. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019034008, us2000jcr0. The 3.26-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:26:20 / 6:26 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days seventy-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 60 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.26 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.2143° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3285° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km 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 2019-02-03 11:26:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-03 12:12:17 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 164 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8316 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 231 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 pr2019034008 Id of event.
Event Code 2019034008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019034008,us2000jcr0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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