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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Berekua in Dominica

Posted by admin on January 8, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.2157S, -61.3094WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Berekua in Dominica on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/01/20 / 2020-01-08 14:01:52 / January 8, 2020 @ 2:01 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:01:52 / 10:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -61.3094° West, latitude 15.2157° North, depth = 143.99 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006wc3. Id of event: us70006wc3. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 143.99 km (89 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Fort-de-France (c. 90 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Le Lamentin (c. 39 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Le Robert (c. 23 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Sainte-Marie (c. 20 400 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Capesterre-Belle-Eau (c. 19 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Le François (c. 19 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Ducos (c. 17 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vieux-Habitants, Baillif, Saint-Claude. Country/countries that might be effected, Guadeloupe (c. 443 000 pop), Martinique (c. 433 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km SSE of Berekua, Dominica. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -61.3094° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.2157° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 143.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SSE of Berekua, Dominica Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-08 14:01:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-08 14:20:35 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 400 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 0.398 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us70006wc3 Id of event.
Event Code 70006wc3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006wc3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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