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Minor earthquake, 3.76 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.2755S, -68.0336WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.76 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Event id: pr2019036000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019036000. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/02/19 / 2019-02-05 02:01:54 / February 5, 2019 @ 2:01 am. Exact location of event, longitude -68.0336 West, latitude 19.2755 North, depth = 97 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 97 km (60 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 21:01:54 / 9:01 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (54 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourty-six, in the past 30 days seventy-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 86 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.76 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0336° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2755° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km 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 02:01:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-05 03:32:08 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 218 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8373 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 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 pr2019036000 Id of event.
Event Code 2019036000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019036000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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