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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on October 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9528S, -67.8591WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/10/16 / 2016-10-17 07:21:11 / October 17, 2016 @ 7:21 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 41 km (25 miles). The temblor was picked up at 02:21:11 / 2:21 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16291002. Id of event: pr16291002. Exact location of event, longitude -67.8591 West, latitude 18.9528 North, depth = 41 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 70 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8591° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9528° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km NE 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 2016-10-17 07:21:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-17 12:10:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.65936342 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 248.4 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 pr16291002 Id of event.
Event Code 16291002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16291002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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