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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on March 5, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0778S, -67.9531WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 53 km (33 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -67.9531 West, latitude 19.0778 North, depth = 53 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/03/16 / 2016-03-05 12:20:39 / March 5, 2016 @ 12:20 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 07:20:39 / 7:20 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16065000. Id of event: pr16065000.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 72 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9531° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0778° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km 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 2016-03-05 12:20:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-05 16:36:35 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.69170277 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 252 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 pr16065000 Id of event.
Event Code 16065000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16065000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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