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

Posted by admin on June 8, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1091S, -67.9335WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -67.9335° West, 19.1091° North. The temblor was detected at 17:53:40 / 5:53 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global time and date of event 08/06/20 / 2020-06-08 17:53:40 / June 8, 2020 @ 5:53 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000a7y7. Id of event: us6000a7y7.

Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 76 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9335° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1091° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76 km 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 2020-06-08 17:53:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-08 18:14:48 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 1.007 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 333 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 us6000a7y7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000a7y7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a7y7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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