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

Posted by admin on July 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.7666S, -68.4885WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018184011. Id of event: pr2018184011. Exact location of earthquake, -68.4885° West, 18.7666° North, depth 121 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:51:00 / 5:51 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 121 km (75 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/07/18 / 2018-07-03 21:51:00 / July 3, 2018 @ 9:51 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Miches, La Romana, Santa Cruz de El Seibo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 22 km NNW of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4885° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 121 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km NNW 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 2018-07-03 21:51:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-04 01:53:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2745 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 245 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 pr2018184011 Id of event.
Event Code 2018184011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018184011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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