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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near La Romana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on May 2, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4974S, -68.8567WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from La Romana in Dominican Republic on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 146.1 km (91 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/05/20 / 2020-05-02 14:36:16 / May 2, 2020 @ 2:36 pm. Event id: us700098t1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700098t1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 10:36:16 / 10:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.8567 West, latitude 18.4974 North, depth = 146.1 km.

Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bayaguana, Sabana de La Mar, Boca Chica.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 14 km ENE of La Romana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.8567° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4974° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 146.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km ENE of La Romana, 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 2020-05-02 14:36:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-02 14:54:06 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 2 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 272 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 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us700098t1 Id of event.
Event Code 700098t1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700098t1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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