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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 81 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on July 18, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9768S, -67.7522WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 81 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (50 miles). Id of earthquake: pr15199014. Event ids that are associated: pr15199014. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 02:55:07 / 2:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.7522 West, latitude 18.9768 North, depth = 36 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/07/15 / 2015-07-18 07:55:07 / July 18, 2015 @ 7:55 am.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 81 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7522° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9768° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km 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 07:55:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-18 14:03:14 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 148 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.64229543 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 313.2 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 pr15199014 Id of event.
Event Code 15199014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15199014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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