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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.9629S, -67.7276WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 82 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (51 miles). Unique identifier: pr15199006. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15199006. Global time and date of event 18/07/15 / 2015-07-18 02:29:00 / July 18, 2015 @ 2:29 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 67 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 21:29:00 / 9:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.7276 West, latitude 18.9629 North, depth = 67 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days thirty-nine, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 82 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7276° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9629° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km 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 2015-07-18 02:29:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-18 09:21:04 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 121 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.76356799 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 252 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 pr15199006 Id of event.
Event Code 15199006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15199006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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