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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 20 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on August 27, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.5041S, -68.2595WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/08/16 / 2016-08-27 19:01:47 / August 27, 2016 @ 7:01 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: pr16240022. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006um0, pr16240022. The temblor was picked up at 15:01:47 / 3:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.2595 West, latitude 18.5041 North, depth = 167 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 167 km (104 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate, La Romana. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-seven 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 20 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.2595° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5041° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 167 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km 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 2016-08-27 19:01:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-27 20:08:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 259 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.11498436 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154.8 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr16240022 Id of event.
Event Code 16240022 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006um0,pr16240022, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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