Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 109 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (68 miles) on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 06/05/20 / 2020-05-06 21:49:25 / May 6, 2020 @ 9:49 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us70009bef. Event ids that are associated: us70009bef. The temblor was detected at 16:49:25 / 4:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.7559 West, latitude 19.3505 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days fourty-five, in the past 30 days seventy-five and in the last 365 days one thousand and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 109 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.7559° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3505° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	109km 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 21:49:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-06 21:57:04	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	1.069	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.35 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	209	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	us70009bef	Id of event.
Event Code	70009bef	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009bef,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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