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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.1877S, -67.7094WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 99 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (62 miles). The temblor was reported at 00:34:04 / 12:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.7094 West, latitude 19.1877 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70009bji. Unique identifier: us70009bji. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/05/20 / 2020-05-07 05:34:04 / May 7, 2020 @ 5:34 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fourty-six, in the past 30 days seventy-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 99 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7094° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1877° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99km 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 2020-05-07 05:34:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-07 06:00:05 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 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.913 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 330 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 us70009bji Id of event.
Event Code 70009bji An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009bji, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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