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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on March 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.244S, -68.168WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.291 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000pvak. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pvak. The temblor was detected at 06:09:47 / 6:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -68.168° West, latitude 19.244° North, depth = 6.291 km. Global time and date of event 25/02/25 / 2025-02-25 06:09:47 / February 25, 2025 @ 6:09 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-two, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 77 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.168° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.244° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.291 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77 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 2025-02-25 06:09:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-08 14:46:30 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 148 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.753 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 198 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 us6000pvak Id of event.
Event Code 6000pvak An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pvak, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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