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Minor earthquake, 3.06 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on May 24, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0501S, -67.9543WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) was reported 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/05/17 / 2017-05-22 14:23:52 / May 22, 2017 @ 2:23 pm. The temblor was reported at 09:23:52 / 9:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 57 km, -67.9543° West, 18.0501° North. Unique identifier: pr2017142007. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2017142007. The epicenter was at a depth of 57 km (35 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana. Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 75 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.06 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9543° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0501° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km SE 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 2017-05-22 14:23:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-24 16:28:06 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 144 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.581 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 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 pr2017142007 Id of event.
Event Code 2017142007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017142007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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