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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.0513S, -67.754WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 86 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (53 miles). Unique identifier: pr2019351005. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019351005. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/12/19 / 2019-12-17 08:56:22 / December 17, 2019 @ 8:56 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.754 West, latitude 19.0513 North, depth = 11 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:56:22 / 3:56 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days fifty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and nineteen and in the last 365 days nine hundred and nineteen 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. 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: 86 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.754° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0513° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km 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 2019-12-17 08:56:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-17 09:34:58 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 126 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7213 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 318 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 pr2019351005 Id of event.
Event Code 2019351005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019351005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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