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Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on June 15, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0403S, -67.988WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The 2.98-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:15:34 / 4:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.988 West, latitude 19.0403 North, depth = 7 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/06/18 / 2018-06-15 09:15:34 / June 15, 2018 @ 9:15 am. Unique identifier: pr2018166010. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018166010. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana. Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 67 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.988° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0403° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km 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 2018-06-15 09:15:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-15 12:21:52 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 137 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 0.6572 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 222 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 pr2018166010 Id of event.
Event Code 2018166010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018166010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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