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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on July 16, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.7963S, -67.774WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Thursday. Event id: pr15197008. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15197008. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:11:50 / 1:11 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/07/15 / 2015-07-16 06:11:50 / July 16, 2015 @ 6:11 am. Exact location, longitude -67.774° West, latitude 18.7963° North, depth = 63 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 63 km (39 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguada, Aguadilla, Rincón. Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 70 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.774° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7963° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km ENE 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 2015-07-16 06:11:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-16 11:09:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 158 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 ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6404988 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 216 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 pr15197008 Id of event.
Event Code 15197008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15197008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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