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Minor earthquake: M2.86 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on May 12, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0636S, -67.9706WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) strikes 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 92 km (57 miles). The temblor was picked up at 00:13:30 / 12:13 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2018132007. Event ids that are associated: pr2018132007. Exact location of event, depth 92 km, -67.9706° West, 18.0636° North. Global time and date of event 12/05/18 / 2018-05-12 05:13:30 / May 12, 2018 @ 5:13 am UTC/GMT.

Close 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 74 km (46 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

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 three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-four 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: 73 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9706° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0636° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km 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 2018-05-12 05:13:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-12 09:57:04 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 126 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 0.6095 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 204 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 pr2018132007 Id of event.
Event Code 2018132007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018132007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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