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Minor earthquake, 3.38 mag has occurred near Punta Cana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on May 30, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.7563S, -67.7761WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of event, longitude -67.7761 West, latitude 18.7563 North, depth = 109 km. The 3.38-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:15:13 / 5:15 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2018149006. Event ids that are associated: pr2018149006. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/05/18 / 2018-05-29 22:15:13 / May 29, 2018 @ 10:15 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 109 km (68 miles).

Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Moca, Aguadilla, Aguada. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 69 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.38 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7761° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7563° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 109 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km 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 2018-05-29 22:15:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-29 23:42:36 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 176 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 0.652 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 324 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 pr2018149006 Id of event.
Event Code 2018149006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018149006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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