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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on March 5, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.041S, -67.8575WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The epicenter was at a depth of 122 km (76 miles). The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:55:49 / 12:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -67.8575° West, 19.041° North, depth 122 km. Global time and date of event 05/03/16 / 2016-03-05 17:55:49 / March 5, 2016 @ 5:55 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16065001. Unique identifier: pr16065001.

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 77 km (48 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 76 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8575° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.041° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 122 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km 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 17:55:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-05 19:45:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.128284 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219.6 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 pr16065001 Id of event.
Event Code 16065001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16065001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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