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

Posted by admin on July 18, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8645S, -67.8516WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/07/15 / 2015-07-17 11:33:08 / July 17, 2015 @ 11:33 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 06:33:08 / 6:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.8516 West, latitude 18.8645 North, depth = 88 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15198028. Id of event: pr15198028. The epicenter was at a depth of 88 km (55 miles).

The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana.

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

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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: 66 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 -67.8516° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8645° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km 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 2015-07-17 11:33:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-18 05:02:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.61085439 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 226.8 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 pr15198028 Id of event.
Event Code 15198028 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15198028, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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