Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The temblor was detected at 18:55:30 / 6:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.1935 West, latitude 18.3098 North, depth = 105 km. Global time and date of event 29/11/19 / 2019-11-29 23:55:30 / November 29, 2019 @ 11:55 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 105 km (65 miles). Event id: pr2019333019. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019333019.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 37 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.1935° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.3098° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	105 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37km SE 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	2019-11-29 23:55:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-30 05:24:40	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	127	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.7182	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	187	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	pr2019333019	Id of event.
Event Code	2019333019	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019333019,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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