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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Estero Hondo in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.7819S, -71.1292WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Estero Hondo in Dominican Republic. Exact location of event, longitude -71.1292 West, latitude 19.7819 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/05/20 / 2020-05-14 21:03:57 / May 14, 2020 @ 9:03 pm. Unique identifier: us70009ga7. Ids that are associated to the event: us70009ga7. The temblor was picked up at 17:03:57 / 5:03 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tenares, Gaspar Hernández, Jarabacoa. Epicenter of the event was 58 km (36 miles) from Santiago de los Caballeros (c. 1 200 000 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Puerto Plata (c. 146 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Concepción de La Vega (c. 102 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Moca (c. 61 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Mao (c. 48 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Salcedo (c. 45 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 6 km SE of Estero Hondo, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.1292° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.7819° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SE of Estero Hondo, 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 2020-05-14 21:03:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-14 21:24:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 298 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 0.517 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us70009ga7 Id of event.
Event Code 70009ga7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009ga7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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