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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.3819S, -68.188WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 91 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (57 miles). Unique identifier: us6000a7hy. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000a7hy. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:45:53 / 1:45 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/06/20 / 2020-06-07 13:45:53 / June 7, 2020 @ 1:45 pm. Exact location, longitude -68.188° West, latitude 19.3819° 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 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days nine hundred and twenty-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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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. 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: 91 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.188° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3819° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91 km NNE 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 2020-06-07 13:45:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-07 13:59:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 138 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 1.273 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 216 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 us6000a7hy Id of event.
Event Code 6000a7hy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a7hy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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