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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on May 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2609S, -67.8837WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16131001. Unique identifier: pr16131001. The epicenter was at a depth of 96 km (60 miles). The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:39:26 / 1:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 96 km, -67.8837° West, 18.2609° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/05/16 / 2016-05-10 06:39:26 / May 10, 2016 @ 6:39 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hormigueros, Cabo Rojo, Aguadilla (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Cabo Rojo (c. 10 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 65 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8837° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2609° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km ESE 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 2016-05-10 06:39:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-10 07:10:20 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 168 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.40334356 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 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 pr16131001 Id of event.
Event Code 16131001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16131001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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