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

Posted by admin on July 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9996S, -68.074WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Friday. Exact location, longitude -68.074° West, latitude 18.9996° North, depth = 55 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr2018208005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018208005. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/07/18 / 2018-07-27 19:29:22 / July 27, 2018 @ 7:29 pm UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:29:22 / 2:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Otra Banda, Punta Cana.

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

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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. 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: 57 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.074° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9996° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km 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 2018-07-27 19:29:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-28 00:52:21 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 138 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.2865 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 345 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 pr2018208005 Id of event.
Event Code 2018208005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018208005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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