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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.7576S, -67.9228WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.9228 West, latitude 18.7576 North, depth = 117 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/04/19 / 2019-04-23 01:56:11 / April 23, 2019 @ 1:56 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 117 km (73 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr2019113006. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019113006. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:56:11 / 8:56 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Otra Banda, Punta Cana.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-seven 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 54 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9228° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7576° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 117 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km ENE 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 2019-04-23 01:56:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-23 08:16:44 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 148 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.0194 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 pr2019113006 Id of event.
Event Code 2019113006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019113006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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