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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on September 27, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1294S, -67.708WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 95 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (59 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 16 km, -67.708° West, 19.1294° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:15:23 / 9:15 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr15270019. Unique identifier: pr15270019. Global time and date of event 27/09/15 / 2015-09-27 02:15:23 / September 27, 2015 @ 2:15 am UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 95 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.708° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1294° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95km 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 2015-09-27 02:15:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-27 12:07:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 138 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.86687425 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 248.4 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 pr15270019 Id of event.
Event Code 15270019 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15270019, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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