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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near San Jose de Ocoa in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on November 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4069S, -70.4599WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from San Jose de Ocoa in Dominican Republic. 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 earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:47:55 / 9:47 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: at00nyefnv, us100041dx. Unique identifier: us100041dx. Exact location of event, longitude -70.4599 West, latitude 18.4069 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 26/11/15 / 2015-11-26 01:47:55 / November 26, 2015 @ 1:47 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 51 km (32 miles) from Santo Domingo (c. 2 201 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Santo Domingo Oeste (c. 701 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Bella Vista (c. 175 700 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from San Cristóbal (c. 154 000 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from San Francisco de Macorís (c. 124 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Concepción de La Vega (c. 102 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Santa Cruz de Barahona (c. 77 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Francisco de Macorís, Neiba, Castillo (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eleven 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 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: 16 km SSE of San Jose de Ocoa, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.4599° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4069° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km 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 02:04:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 29 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.2 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 379 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 ,at,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 0.518 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us100041dx Id of event.
Event Code 100041dx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nyefnv,us100041dx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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