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Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag was detected near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on September 23, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.894833333333S, -67.8515WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ntva, pr71460963. Id of event: pr71460963. Exact location of earthquake, -67.8515° West, 18.894833333333° North, depth 24.29 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 24.29 km (15 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/09/24 / 2024-09-23 15:10:18 / September 23, 2024 @ 3:10 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.93-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:10:18 / 3:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 67 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8515° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.894833333333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67 km ENE 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 2024-09-23 15:10:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-23 16:17:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 132 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6285 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 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 pr71460963 Id of event.
Event Code 71460963 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ntva,pr71460963, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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