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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on July 20, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8962S, -67.748WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 77 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (48 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/07/15 / 2015-07-20 00:06:13 / July 20, 2015 @ 12:06 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 60 km (37 miles). Unique identifier: pr15201001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15201001. The temblor was reported at 19:06:13 / 7:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.748 West, latitude 18.8962 North, depth = 60 km.

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 77 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.748° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8962° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km 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 2015-07-20 00:06:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-20 00:30:02 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 129 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 0.70966907 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 pr15201001 Id of event.
Event Code 15201001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15201001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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