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Minor earthquake: M2.98 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on October 6, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0198S, -67.8795WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) was reported 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019279022. Unique identifier: pr2019279022. The temblor was detected at 08:15:48 / 8:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/10/19 / 2019-10-06 13:15:48 / October 6, 2019 @ 1:15 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25 km (16 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -67.8795° West, 19.0198° North, depth 25 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

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 seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and ninety-three and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 73 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8795° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0198° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km NE 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 2019-10-06 13:15:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-06 19:29:50 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 137 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 0.751 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 338 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 pr2019279022 Id of event.
Event Code 2019279022 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019279022, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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