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Minor earthquake: M2.88 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.9858S, -68.0291WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Event id: pr2019356005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019356005. The temblor was detected at 20:36:11 / 8:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.0291 West, latitude 18.9858 North, depth = 40 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/12/19 / 2019-12-22 01:36:11 / December 22, 2019 @ 1:36 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 40 km (25 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Otra Banda, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (37 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days ninety-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-two and in the last 365 days one thousand and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 59 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0291° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9858° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km 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 2019-12-22 01:36:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-22 09:03:38 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 128 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.2434 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 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 pr2019356005 Id of event.
Event Code 2019356005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019356005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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