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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.8206S, -68.1997WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 12:48:58 / 12:48 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/01/17 / 2017-01-05 17:48:58 / January 5, 2017 @ 5:48 pm. Id of earthquake: pr17005003. Event ids that are associated: pr17005003. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 85 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.1997 West, latitude 18.8206 North, depth = 85 km.

The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Rafael del Yuma, Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda.

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

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.1997° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8206° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km 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 2017-01-05 17:48:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-05 18:59:59 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 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.04474068 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169.2 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 pr17005003 Id of event.
Event Code 17005003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17005003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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