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

Posted by admin on May 23, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.333S, -67.8752WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 98 km (61 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -67.8752° West, 18.333° North, depth 98 km. Event id: pr16144000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16144000. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/05/16 / 2016-05-23 03:36:17 / May 23, 2016 @ 3:36 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 22:36:17 / 10:36 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puerto Real, Añasco, Aguadilla (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Puerto Real (c. 6 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 three hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8752° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km 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 2016-05-23 03:36:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-23 03:51:58 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.37908905 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 324 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 pr16144000 Id of event.
Event Code 16144000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16144000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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