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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on March 23, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2437S, -68.0453WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.0453 West, latitude 18.2437 North, depth = 108.13 km. The temblor was detected at 15:48:56 / 3:48 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70008ery. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008ery. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/03/20 / 2020-03-23 20:48:56 / March 23, 2020 @ 8:48 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 108.13 km (67 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 53 km (33 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 53 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0453° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2437° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 108.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km 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 2020-03-23 20:48:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-23 21:11:10 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 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.856 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 188 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70008ery Id of event.
Event Code 70008ery An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008ery, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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