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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.992S, -68.0181WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019085002. Id of event: pr2019085002. Exact location of event, depth 90 km, -68.0181° West, 18.992° North. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:04:40 / 11:04 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 90 km (56 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/03/19 / 2019-03-26 04:04:40 / March 26, 2019 @ 4:04 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 60 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0181° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.992° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 90 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km NE 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 2019-03-26 04:04:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-26 05:09:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 130 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 0.6005 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 207 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 pr2019085002 Id of event.
Event Code 2019085002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019085002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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