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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near El Valle in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on December 12, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9973S, -69.2992WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from El Valle in Dominican Republic. The epicenter was at a depth of 25.91 km (16 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:32:20 / 8:32 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near El Valle in Dominican Republic (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -69.2992 West, latitude 18.9973 North, depth = 25.91 km. Global time and date of event 12/12/15 / 2015-12-12 00:32:20 / December 12, 2015 @ 12:32 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00nz7ytx, us20004gn1. Id of event: us20004gn1.

Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Santo Domingo (c. 2 201 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Santo Domingo Oeste (c. 701 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Bella Vista (c. 175 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santo Domingo Oeste, Santo Domingo, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km ENE of El Valle, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.2992° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9973° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ENE of El Valle, 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 2015-12-12 00:32:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-12 00:50:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 22 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 307 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 0.993 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us20004gn1 Id of event.
Event Code 20004gn1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nz7ytx,us20004gn1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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