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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 59 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.1292S, -68.0951WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70 km (43 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/09/15 / 2015-09-16 00:08:13 / September 16, 2015 @ 12:08 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15259000. Id of event: pr15259000. Exact location of event, longitude -68.0951 West, latitude 18.1292 North, depth = 70 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:08:13 / 7:08 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 59 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.0951° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1292° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km SSE 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 2015-09-16 00:08:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-16 05:15:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 129 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 0.46892058 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 226.8 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 pr15259000 Id of event.
Event Code 15259000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15259000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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