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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near San Jose de Ocoa in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on November 26, 2015 1 Comment

Earthquake location 18.448S, -70.462WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from San Jose de Ocoa in Dominican Republic on Wednesday. Event id: at00nyefnv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00nyefnv. The epicenter was at a depth of 4 km (2 miles). Exact location, longitude -70.462° West, latitude 18.448° North, depth = 4 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near San Jose de Ocoa in Dominican Republic (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:47:55 / 9:47 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/11/15 / 2015-11-26 01:47:55 / November 26, 2015 @ 1:47 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Neiba, Villa Riva, San Francisco de Macorís. The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Santo Domingo (c. 2 201 900 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Santo Domingo Oeste (c. 701 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Bella Vista (c. 175 700 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from San Cristóbal (c. 154 000 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from San Francisco de Macorís (c. 124 800 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Concepción de La Vega (c. 102 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Santa Cruz de Barahona (c. 77 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 11 km SSE of San Jose de Ocoa, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.462° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.448° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSE of San Jose 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 2015-11-26 01:47:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-26 01:51:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 355 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.51653129 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 165.6 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 at00nyefnv Id of event.
Event Code 00nyefnv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nyefnv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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  1. James

    We live close to Piedra Blanca and we felt both of them tonight…..

    November 26, 2015
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