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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on July 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8013S, -67.7955WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 71 km (44 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -67.7955 West, latitude 18.8013 North, depth = 71 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/07/15 / 2015-07-26 08:43:19 / July 26, 2015 @ 8:43 am. Unique identifier: pr15207007. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15207007. The temblor was picked up at 03:43:19 / 3:43 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguada, Aguadilla, Rincón (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seventy, in the past 30 days eighty and in the last 365 days three hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 68 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7955° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8013° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km 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 2015-07-26 08:43:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-26 09:18:04 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 168 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 0.62432912 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219.6 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 pr15207007 Id of event.
Event Code 15207007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15207007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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