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Minor earthquake: M2.84 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on May 2, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9706S, -67.888WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 93 km (58 miles). Unique identifier: pr2018122007. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018122007. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:51:58 / 1:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/05/18 / 2018-05-02 06:51:58 / May 2, 2018 @ 6:51 am. Exact location of earthquake, -67.888° West, 18.9706° North, depth 93 km.

Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana.

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days fifty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 69 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.888° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9706° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km 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 2018-05-02 06:51:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-02 09:07:38 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 124 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 1.1293 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 211 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 pr2018122007 Id of event.
Event Code 2018122007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018122007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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