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Minor earthquake, 3.06 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on December 8, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.062S, -68.0951WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Unique identifier: pr2018342001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018342001. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55 km (34 miles). The temblor was picked up at 20:14:51 / 8:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/12/18 / 2018-12-08 01:14:51 / December 8, 2018 @ 1:14 am. Exact location, longitude -68.0951° West, latitude 19.062° North, depth = 55 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Otra Banda, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days sixty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 62 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.06 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0951° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.062° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km 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 2018-12-08 01:14:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-08 07:05:04 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 144 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6184 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 264 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 pr2018342001 Id of event.
Event Code 2018342001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018342001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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