Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on October 18, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9775S, -68.262WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:57:12 / 9:57 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr15291004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15291004. Global time and date of event 18/10/15 / 2015-10-18 02:57:12 / October 18, 2015 @ 2:57 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.262 West, latitude 18.9775 North, depth = 99 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 99 km (62 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Rafael del Yuma, Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (38 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

How would you describe the shaking?

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 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: 46 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

Copyright © 2015 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.262° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9775° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km NNE 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 2015-10-18 02:57:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-18 05:39:10 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 148 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.37082912 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 334.8 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 pr15291004 Id of event.
Event Code 15291004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15291004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2024 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today