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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near El Puerto in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on February 24, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.7292S, -69.4339WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from El Puerto in Dominican Republic on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 24/02/16 / 2016-02-24 08:18:20 / February 24, 2016 @ 8:18 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 95.13 km (59 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near El Puerto in Dominican Republic (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00o31lqj, us10004saw. Id of event: us10004saw. The temblor was picked up at 04:18:20 / 4:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.4339 West, latitude 18.7292 North, depth = 95.13 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nizao, Las Guáranas, Piedra Blanca. Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Santo Domingo (c. 2 201 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Santo Domingo Oeste (c. 701 300 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Bella Vista (c. 175 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from San Cristóbal (c. 154 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 6 km SSE of El Puerto, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.4339° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7292° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SSE of El Puerto, 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 2016-02-24 08:18:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-24 08:33:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.9 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 341 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 0.529 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us10004saw Id of event.
Event Code 10004saw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00o31lqj,us10004saw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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