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Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on July 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9738S, -67.7734WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location, longitude -67.7734° West, latitude 18.9738° North, depth = 29 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:32:47 / 4:32 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 29 km (18 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/07/15 / 2015-07-19 09:32:47 / July 19, 2015 @ 9:32 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr15200011. Event ids that are associated: pr15200011.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fifty-two, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 79 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7734° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9738° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km 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 2015-07-19 09:32:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-19 13:22:30 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.64948195 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 316.8 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 pr15200011 Id of event.
Event Code 15200011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15200011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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