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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near San Rafael del Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on April 5, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2483S, -68.7689WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma in Dominican Republic on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/04/16 / 2016-04-05 01:31:19 / April 5, 2016 @ 1:31 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 173 km (107 miles). The temblor was detected at 21:31:19 / 9:31 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr16096000. Event ids that are associated: pr16096000. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.7689 West, latitude 18.2483 North, depth = 173 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miches, Hato Mayor del Rey, Quisqueya (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop).

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

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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. 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: 22 km SSW of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.7689° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2483° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 173 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SSW 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 2016-04-05 01:31:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-05 12:15:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 211 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4527509 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 313.2 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 pr16096000 Id of event.
Event Code 16096000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16096000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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