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Minor earthquake: M2.82 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on December 20, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0993S, -67.8411WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 82 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (51 miles). Exact location of event, depth 19 km, -67.8411° West, 19.0993° North. The temblor was picked up at 06:35:04 / 6:35 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/12/19 / 2019-12-20 11:35:04 / December 20, 2019 @ 11:35 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr2019354020. Event ids that are associated: pr2019354020.

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eighty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-four and in the last 365 days nine hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8411° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0993° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km 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 2019-12-20 11:35:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-20 16:44:26 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 122 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8013 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 322 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 pr2019354020 Id of event.
Event Code 2019354020 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019354020, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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