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Minor earthquake, 3.03 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on September 14, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9605S, -67.8618WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -67.8618° West, latitude 18.9605° North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was detected at 16:15:54 / 4:15 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2017257005. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2017257005. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/09/17 / 2017-09-14 21:15:54 / September 14, 2017 @ 9:15 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana. The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and seven 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 70 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.03 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8618° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9605° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 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 2017-09-14 21:15:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-14 22:24:32 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 141 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6916 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 322 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 pr2017257005 Id of event.
Event Code 2017257005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017257005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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