Minor earthquake, 3.25 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on October 16, 2017 0 Comments

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/10/17 / 2017-10-14 15:39:00 / October 14, 2017 @ 3:39 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 152 km, -68.391° West, 18.5301° North. The 3.25-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:39:00 / 11:39 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 152 km (94 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: pr2017287004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2017287004.

The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, La Romana, Guaymate. Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

Did you feel it?

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: 5 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.25 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.391° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.5301° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	152 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km SSE 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	2017-10-14 15:39:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-16 21:17:34	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	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	162	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	0.0188	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	311	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	pr2017287004	Id of event.
Event Code	2017287004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017287004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake, 3.25 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Did you feel it?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information