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Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on May 28, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.2737S, -68.0417WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:10:39 / 9:10 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/05/24 / 2024-05-28 09:10:39 / May 28, 2024 @ 9:10 am. Id of earthquake: us6000n1fb. Event ids that are associated: us6000n1fb. Exact location, longitude -68.0417° West, latitude 19.2737° North, depth = 10 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 85 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0417° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2737° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85 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 2024-05-28 09:10:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-28 09:24:29 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 234 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.821 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000n1fb Id of event.
Event Code 6000n1fb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n1fb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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