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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on April 30, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2099S, -68.0751WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:31:57 / 3:31 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 94 km (58 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/04/16 / 2016-04-30 08:31:57 / April 30, 2016 @ 8:31 am. Exact location of earthquake, -68.0751° West, 18.2099° North, depth 94 km. Unique identifier: pr16121001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16121001.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana. Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 54 km (34 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 68 km (42 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 one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 53 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0751° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2099° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km SE 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 2016-04-30 08:31:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-30 13:50:51 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.59198977 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190.8 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 pr16121001 Id of event.
Event Code 16121001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16121001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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