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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on October 4, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.286S, -68.276WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of event, depth 94 km, -68.276° West, 18.286° North. Unique identifier: pr2019277026. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019277026. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 94 km (58 miles). The temblor was picked up at 10:33:30 / 10:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/10/19 / 2019-10-04 14:33:30 / October 4, 2019 @ 2:33 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Romana, Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 35 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.276° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.286° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km SSE 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 2019-10-04 14:33:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-04 16:24:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 121 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 0.8029 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 pr2019277026 Id of event.
Event Code 2019277026 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019277026, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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