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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Dominican Republic region

Posted by admin on September 17, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0755S, -68.5012WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, Dominican Republic region kilometers (0 miles) from Dominican Republic region. Event id: pr15260009. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15260009. The temblor was picked up at 12:16:48 / 12:16 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 15 km (9 miles). Exact location of event, depth 15 km, -68.5012° West, 19.0755° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 12:16:48 / September 17, 2015 @ 12:16 pm UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Rafael del Yuma, Guaymate, Santa Cruz de El Seibo (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Dominican Republic region. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.5012° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0755° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Dominican Republic region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-17 12:16:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-17 17:34:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.56953189 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 302.4 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 pr15260009 Id of event.
Event Code 15260009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15260009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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