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Minor earthquake, 3.08 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on June 15, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.2163S, -68.0723WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) strikes 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.0723 West, latitude 19.2163 North, depth = 85 km. Global time and date of event 15/06/18 / 2018-06-15 05:50:05 / June 15, 2018 @ 5:50 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 85 km (53 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018166008. Id of event: pr2018166008. The temblor was detected at 00:50:05 / 12:50 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 78 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.08 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0723° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2163° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km NNE 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 05:50:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-15 08:35:09 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 146 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7674 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 250 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 pr2018166008 Id of event.
Event Code 2018166008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018166008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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