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Minor earthquake, 3.65 mag was detected near Otra Banda in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on May 14, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.7928S, -68.695WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.65 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Otra Banda in Dominican Republic. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020135003. Id of event: pr2020135003. Global time and date of event 14/05/20 / 2020-05-14 10:49:07 / May 14, 2020 @ 10:49 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -68.695 West, latitude 18.7928 North, depth = 151 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 151 km (94 miles). The 3.65-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:49:07 / 6:49 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Samaná, Quisqueya, Sabana de La Mar (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 16 km NNW of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.65 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.695° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7928° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 151 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km NNW of Otra Banda, 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 10:49:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-14 11:39:46 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 205 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 ,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 0.7002 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 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 md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020135003 Id of event.
Event Code 2020135003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020135003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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