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Minor earthquake, 3.23 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on September 4, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.6301S, -67.9801WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) strikes 124 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (77 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 19 km (12 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2019247008. Event ids that are associated: pr2019247008. Exact location of event, depth 19 km, -67.9801° West, 19.6301° North. The 3.23-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:43:58 / 3:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/09/19 / 2019-09-04 20:43:58 / September 4, 2019 @ 8:43 pm UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 124 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.23 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9801° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6301° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 124km 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 2019-09-04 20:43:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-04 23:20:29 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 161 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.4514 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 261 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 pr2019247008 Id of event.
Event Code 2019247008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019247008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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