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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Sanchez in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on July 24, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.2096S, -69.6568WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Sanchez in Dominican Republic on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: us20002zyh. Unique identifier: us20002zyh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 15:51:19 / 3:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.6568 West, latitude 19.2096 North, depth = 87.1 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/07/15 / 2015-07-24 19:51:19 / July 24, 2015 @ 7:51 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 87.1 km (54 miles).

Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Santo Domingo (c. 2 201 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Santo Domingo Oeste (c. 701 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Bella Vista (c. 175 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from San Francisco de Macorís (c. 124 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Concepción de La Vega (c. 102 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Concepción de La Vega, San Pedro de Macorís, Bella Vista.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km WSW of Sanchez, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.6568° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2096° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km WSW of Sanchez, 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 2015-07-24 19:51:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-24 22:07:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 14 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 275 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.494 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20002zyh Id of event.
Event Code 20002zyh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002zyh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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