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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 56 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on October 25, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.7408S, -67.898WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/10/16 / 2016-10-25 02:10:12 / October 25, 2016 @ 2:10 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16299000. Id of event: pr16299000. The temblor was detected at 21:10:12 / 9:10 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 30 km (19 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.898 West, latitude 18.7408 North, depth = 30 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana. Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 56 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.898° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7408° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km ENE 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 2016-10-25 02:10:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-25 05:06:13 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 148 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5111414 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219.6 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 pr16299000 Id of event.
Event Code 16299000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16299000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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