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Minor earthquake 3.69 mag, 86 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on August 11, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1305S, -67.8258WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.69 (ml/mb) strikes 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 19:08:42 / 7:08 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 90 km (56 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000njih, pr2024224002. Id of event: pr2024224002. Exact location of event, longitude -67.8258 West, latitude 19.1305 North, depth = 90 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/08/24 / 2024-08-11 19:08:42 / August 11, 2024 @ 7:08 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (54 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred 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. 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: 86 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.69 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8258° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1305° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 90 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86 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 2024-08-11 19:08:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-11 19:49:46 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 209 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9747 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 210 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 pr2024224002 Id of event.
Event Code 2024224002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000njih,pr2024224002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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