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Minor earthquake, 3.42 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on January 30, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8535S, -67.8696WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Global time and date of event 29/01/20 / 2020-01-29 01:11:35 / January 29, 2020 @ 1:11 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -67.8696 West, latitude 18.8535 North, depth = 15 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15 km (9 miles). The temblor was picked up at 20:11:35 / 8:11 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2020029017. Event ids that are associated: pr2020029017.

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 63 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.42 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8696° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8535° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km ENE 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 2020-01-29 01:11:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-30 17:42:57 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 180 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6103 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 328 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 pr2020029017 Id of event.
Event Code 2020029017 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020029017, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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