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Earthquake: M 4.5 quake strikes near Palmar de Ocoa in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on March 27, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.059S, -70.73WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (mg/mb) has occurred on Friday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Palmar de Ocoa in Dominican Republic. The temblor was reported at 13:13:49 / 1:13 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 1 km (1 miles). Global time of event 27/03/15 / 2015-03-27 18:13:49 / March 27, 2015 @ 6:13 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Palmar de Ocoa in Dominican Republic, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -70.73 West, latitude 18.059 North, depth 1 km, unique identifier, at00nlvun1.

Close countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Santo Domingo (c. 2 201 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Santo Domingo Oeste (c. 701 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Bella Vista (c. 175 700 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from San Cristóbal (c. 154 000 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Santa Cruz de Barahona (c. 77 200 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Julia, Constanza, Bella Vista.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.73° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.059° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km SSW of Palmar de Ocoa, 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 2015-03-27 18:13:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-03-27 18:17:49 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 1 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 312 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, 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 0.8695692 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97.2 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 at00nlvun1 Id of event.
Event Code 00nlvun1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nlvun1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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