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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on February 26, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.5473S, -67.948WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 117 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (73 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -67.948 West, latitude 19.5473 North, depth = 35 km. Id of earthquake: us6000pvnh. Event ids that are associated: us6000pvnh. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/02/25 / 2025-02-26 17:18:32 / February 26, 2025 @ 5:18 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was reported at 17:18:32 / 5:18 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 117 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.948° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5473° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 117 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 2025-02-26 17:18:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-26 17:35:59 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 129 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.334 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 221 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 us6000pvnh Id of event.
Event Code 6000pvnh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pvnh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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