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Minor earthquake, 3.53 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on January 30, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1081S, -67.966WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.53 (ml/mb) strikes 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020030001, us60007jtn. Unique identifier: pr2020030001. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/01/20 / 2020-01-30 06:01:17 / January 30, 2020 @ 6:01 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 01:01:17 / 1:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.966 West, latitude 19.1081 North, depth = 8 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days one thousand and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.53 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.966° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1081° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km 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 2020-01-30 06:01:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-30 07:24:07 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 192 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8722 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 326 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 pr2020030001 Id of event.
Event Code 2020030001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020030001,us60007jtn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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