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Minor earthquake: M3.11 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on July 2, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.12S, -67.9331WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.9331 West, latitude 18.12 North, depth = 113 km. The temblor was reported at 10:08:20 / 10:08 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 113 km (70 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/07/18 / 2018-07-01 15:08:20 / July 1, 2018 @ 3:08 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018182027. Id of event: pr2018182027.

Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Puerto Real (c. 6 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puerto Real, Rincón, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 71 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.11 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9331° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.12° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km 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 2018-07-01 15:08:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-01 22:50:18 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 149 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5968 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 198 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 pr2018182027 Id of event.
Event Code 2018182027 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018182027, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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