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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near La Plaine in Dominica

Posted by admin on June 15, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.348S, -61.2469WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from La Plaine in Dominica on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 03:39:50 / 3:39 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 22.82 km (14 miles). Exact location of event, depth 22.82 km, -61.2469° West, 15.348° North. Unique identifier: us6000412r. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000412r. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/06/19 / 2019-06-15 07:39:50 / June 15, 2019 @ 7:39 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Le Gros-Morne, La Trinité, Petite Rivière Salée. The epicenter was 68 km (43 miles) from Sainte-Marie (c. 20 400 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Roseau (c. 16 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Petite Rivière Salée (c. 15 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from La Trinité (c. 15 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Le Gros-Morne (c. 11 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominica (c. 73 000 pop), Martinique (c. 433 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 1 km NNE of La Plaine, Dominica.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -61.2469° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.348° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NNE of La Plaine, Dominica Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-15 07:39:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-15 08:25:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 121 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 0.51 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us6000412r Id of event.
Event Code 6000412r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000412r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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