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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on December 18, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.134S, -67.8176WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 86 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (53 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -67.8176 West, latitude 19.134 North, depth = 36 km. Id of earthquake: pr2019352011. Event ids that are associated: pr2019352011. The 2.97-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:37:51 / 3:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/12/19 / 2019-12-18 08:37:51 / December 18, 2019 @ 8:37 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days eighty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-eight and in the last 365 days nine hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8176° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.134° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36 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 2019-12-18 08:37:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-18 13:10:31 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 136 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9712 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 332 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 pr2019352011 Id of event.
Event Code 2019352011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019352011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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