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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near San Pedro de Macoris in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on April 21, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.1961S, -69.3793WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from San Pedro de Macoris in Dominican Republic. Id of earthquake: us10008jet. Event ids that are associated: us10008jet. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:24:48 / 6:24 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 57.55 km (36 miles). Global time and date of event 20/04/17 / 2017-04-20 23:24:48 / April 20, 2017 @ 11:24 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 57.55 km, -69.3793° West, 18.1961° North.

Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Santo Domingo (c. 2 201 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Santo Domingo Oeste (c. 701 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Bella Vista (c. 175 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Cristóbal (c. 154 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cambita Garabitos, Otra Banda, Nizao. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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: 30 km SSW of San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.3793° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1961° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km SSW of San Pedro de Macoris, 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 2017-04-20 23:24:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-20 23:44:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 21 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 280 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 ,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 0.575 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us10008jet Id of event.
Event Code 10008jet An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008jet, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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