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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on May 6, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.286S, -67.77WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 102 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (63 miles). Id of earthquake: pt20127001. Event ids that are associated: pt20127001. The temblor was reported at 14:00:36 / 2:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5.9 km, -67.77° West, 19.286° North. Global time and date of event 06/05/20 / 2020-05-06 19:00:36 / May 6, 2020 @ 7:00 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.9 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days seventy-two and in the last 365 days one thousand and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 102 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.77° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.286° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km 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 2020-05-06 19:00:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-06 19:05:31 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 340 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pt The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pt20127001 Id of event.
Event Code 20127001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20127001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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