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Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.9015S, -67.883WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Event id: pr2019114006. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019114006. Global time and date of event 24/04/19 / 2019-04-24 10:44:34 / April 24, 2019 @ 10:44 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 16 km (10 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -67.883° West, 18.9015° North, depth 16 km. The temblor was reported at 05:44:34 / 5:44 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 65 km (41 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Close 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 Punta Cana.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 65 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.883° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9015° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km 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 2019-04-24 10:44:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-24 11:43:26 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6314 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 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 pr2019114006 Id of event.
Event Code 2019114006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019114006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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