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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 9 km WSW of Estero Hondo, Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on May 20, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.7818S, -71.2507WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Estero Hondo in Dominican Republic. Exact location, longitude -71.2507° West, latitude 19.7818° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009lc0. Id of event: us70009lc0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 23:22:12 / 11:22 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/05/20 / 2020-05-20 03:22:12 / May 20, 2020 @ 3:22 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Moca, Trou du Nord, San Víctor Arriba (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Santiago de los Caballeros (c. 1 200 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Puerto Plata (c. 146 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Moca (c. 61 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Mao (c. 48 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Esperanza (c. 42 200 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Villa Bisonó (c. 33 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km WSW of Estero Hondo, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.2507° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.7818° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km WSW 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 2020-05-20 03:22:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-20 04:39:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 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 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 0.606 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us70009lc0 Id of event.
Event Code 70009lc0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009lc0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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