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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near San Rafael del Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on August 17, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4592S, -68.628WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma in Dominican Republic on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 85 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/08/15 / 2015-08-16 23:24:10 / August 16, 2015 @ 11:24 pm. Exact location, longitude -68.628° West, latitude 18.4592° North, depth = 85 km. The temblor was detected at 19:24:10 / 7:24 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr15228014. Unique identifier: pr15228014.

Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quisqueya, Hato Mayor del Rey, Miches (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 5 km NE of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.628° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4592° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NE of San Rafael del Yuma, 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 2015-08-16 23:24:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-16 23:53:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 199 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.09235139 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 345.6 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 pr15228014 Id of event.
Event Code 15228014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15228014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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