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Minor earthquake: M3.01 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.5263S, -67.9333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) was reported 115 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (71 miles) on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/08/19 / 2019-08-03 22:58:35 / August 3, 2019 @ 10:58 pm. Event id: pr2019215016. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019215016. The 3.01-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:58:35 / 5:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.9333 West, latitude 19.5263 North, depth = 18 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 115 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.01 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5263° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 115km 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 2019-08-03 22:58:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-04 00:04:46 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 139 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.3405 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 253 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 pr2019215016 Id of event.
Event Code 2019215016 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019215016, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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