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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on February 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.253S, -68.1486WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Friday. The temblor was detected at 19:21:57 / 7:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/02/18 / 2018-02-03 00:21:57 / February 3, 2018 @ 12:21 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 81 km (50 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018034000. Unique identifier: pr2018034000. Exact location of earthquake, -68.1486° West, 18.253° North, depth 81 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda, San Rafael del Yuma. Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).

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 fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 45 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.1486° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.253° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km 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 2018-02-03 00:21:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-03 05:31:27 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 129 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3497 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 pr2018034000 Id of event.
Event Code 2018034000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018034000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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