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Minor earthquake, 3.83 mag strikes near Otra Banda in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on May 15, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8151S, -68.6603WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.83 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Otra Banda in Dominican Republic on Monday. The 3.83-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:19:52 / 7:19 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/05/18 / 2018-05-14 23:19:52 / May 14, 2018 @ 11:19 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: pr2018134007. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018134007. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.6603 West, latitude 18.8151 North, depth = 149 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 149 km (93 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quisqueya, Samaná, Sabana de La Mar (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 18 km N of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6603° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8151° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 149 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km N of Otra Banda, 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 2018-05-14 23:19:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-15 06:01:53 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 226 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4105 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 230 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 pr2018134007 Id of event.
Event Code 2018134007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018134007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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