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Minor earthquake, 3.11 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.902S, -67.7506WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -67.7506 West, latitude 18.902 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 20:47:19 / 8:47 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2020030024. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020030024. Global time and date of event 30/01/20 / 2020-01-30 01:47:19 / January 30, 2020 @ 1:47 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days sixty-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 77 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.11 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7506° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.902° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km 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 2020-01-30 01:47:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-31 15:36:43 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 149 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5844 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 316 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 pr2020030024 Id of event.
Event Code 2020030024 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020030024, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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