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Minor earthquake: M2.94 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.3493S, -68.1608WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Id of earthquake: pr2019123001. Event ids that are associated: pr2019123001. The epicenter was at a depth of 100 km (62 miles). The temblor was reported at 00:38:43 / 12:38 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/05/19 / 2019-05-03 05:38:43 / May 3, 2019 @ 5:38 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.1608 West, latitude 18.3493 North, depth = 100 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (40 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 36 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.1608° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.3493° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km 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 2019-05-03 05:38:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-03 07:53:26 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 133 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2752 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 pr2019123001 Id of event.
Event Code 2019123001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019123001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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