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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on August 13, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9407S, -67.8945WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/08/15 / 2015-08-13 14:41:20 / August 13, 2015 @ 2:41 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -67.8945 West, latitude 18.9407 North, depth = 24 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15225009. Unique identifier: pr15225009. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 24 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 09:41:20 / 9:41 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days eighty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 66 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8945° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9407° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km NE 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 2015-08-13 14:41:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-13 17:47:00 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 121 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.67822804 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 324 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 pr15225009 Id of event.
Event Code 15225009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15225009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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