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

Posted by admin on December 19, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1088S, -67.8993WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was reported 78 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (48 miles) on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/12/19 / 2019-12-19 05:40:04 / December 19, 2019 @ 5:40 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 00:40:04 / 12:40 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019353010. Id of event: pr2019353010. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -67.8993° West, latitude 19.1088° North, depth = 13 km.

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

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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. 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: 78 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8993° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1088° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km 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 2019-12-19 05:40:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-19 06:37:53 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.016 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 333 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 pr2019353010 Id of event.
Event Code 2019353010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019353010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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