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Light earthquake, 4.38 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on February 5, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.5725S, -68.0613WA light earthquake magnitude 4.38 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 81 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (50 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/02/19 / 2019-02-05 04:07:27 / February 5, 2019 @ 4:07 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19036050, pr2019036001, us2000jdh2. Id of event: pr2019036001. Exact location of event, longitude -68.0613 West, latitude 19.5725 North, depth = 33 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.38-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:07:27 / 11:07 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fourty-eight, in the past 30 days seventy-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 81 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.38 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0613° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5725° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km 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 2019-02-05 04:07:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-05 05:28:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 295 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 ,pt,pr,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.1059 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223 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 pr2019036001 Id of event.
Event Code 2019036001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19036050,pr2019036001,us2000jdh2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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