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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on February 27, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0471S, -67.9972WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Event id: pr17058002. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17058002. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/02/17 / 2017-02-27 07:34:46 / February 27, 2017 @ 7:34 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -67.9972° West, 19.0471° North. The temblor was picked up at 02:34:46 / 2:34 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 67 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9972° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0471° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km 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 2017-02-27 07:34:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-27 13:13:46 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 121 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.64229543 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 252 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 pr17058002 Id of event.
Event Code 17058002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17058002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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