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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on February 4, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.1358S, -68.5523WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Unique identifier: pr2019035005. Ids that are associated to the event: pt19035050, us2000jd4z, pr2019035005. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:33:48 / 10:33 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/02/19 / 2019-02-04 14:33:48 / February 4, 2019 @ 2:33 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 74 km (46 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.5523 West, latitude 18.1358 North, depth = 74 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Quisqueya (c. 17 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miches, Hato Mayor del Rey, Quisqueya. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 31 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.5523° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1358° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km SSE of Boca de 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 2019-02-04 14:33:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-04 16:00:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 367 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 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 590 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 ,pt,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4149 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 189 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2019035005 Id of event.
Event Code 2019035005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19035050,us2000jd4z,pr2019035005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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