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Minor earthquake, 3.07 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.5525S, -68.0501WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) strikes 113 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (70 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude -68.0501° West, latitude 19.5525° North, depth = 66 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/06/19 / 2019-06-12 04:12:18 / June 12, 2019 @ 4:12 am. The temblor was picked up at 23:12:18 / 11:12 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2019163001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019163001. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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: 113 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0501° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5525° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 113km NNE 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 2019-06-12 04:12:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-12 08:32:49 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 145 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.4348 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 260 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 pr2019163001 Id of event.
Event Code 2019163001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019163001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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