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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on August 15, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.2084S, -67.9208WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of earthquake, -67.9208° West, 19.2084° North, depth 8.34 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.34 km (5 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/08/15 / 2015-08-15 19:27:49 / August 15, 2015 @ 7:27 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us100032lz. Event ids that are associated: us100032lz. The temblor was detected at 14:27:49 / 2:27 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana. Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (54 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 86 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9208° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2084° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km 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 2015-08-15 19:27:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-15 20:00:32 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 211 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.816 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100032lz Id of event.
Event Code 100032lz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100032lz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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