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Minor earthquake, 3.83 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on June 9, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0505S, -68.12WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.83 (ml/mb) was reported 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Tuesday. Exact location of event, depth 40 km, -68.12° West, 19.0505° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 11:30:54 / 11:30 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2020161023. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000a8g5, pr2020161023. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/06/20 / 2020-06-09 11:30:54 / June 9, 2020 @ 11:30 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda, Punta Cana. Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 59 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.12° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0505° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59 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 2020-06-09 11:30:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-09 12:11:16 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 226 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us,pr, 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 0.5969 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 265 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020161023 Id of event.
Event Code 2020161023 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a8g5,pr2020161023, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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