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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on March 23, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.94S, -68.2655WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16083000. Unique identifier: pr16083000. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/03/16 / 2016-03-23 01:42:00 / March 23, 2016 @ 1:42 am. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:42:00 / 8:42 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 64 km (40 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.2655 West, latitude 18.94 North, depth = 64 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 42 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. 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 -68.2655° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.94° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km 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 2016-03-23 01:42:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-23 04:58:05 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 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.43747954 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 273.6 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 pr16083000 Id of event.
Event Code 16083000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16083000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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