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Minor earthquake: M2.89 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on February 24, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2015S, -68.0016WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location, longitude -68.0016° West, latitude 18.2015° North, depth = 126 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 126 km (78 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/02/19 / 2019-02-24 16:58:41 / February 24, 2019 @ 4:58 pm. The temblor was picked up at 11:58:41 / 11:58 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2019055010. Event ids that are associated: pr2019055010.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 59 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0016° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2015° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 126 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km SE 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 2019-02-24 16:58:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-24 22:17:36 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 128 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4918 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 191 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 pr2019055010 Id of event.
Event Code 2019055010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019055010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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