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Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Samaná in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on June 2, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.7422S, -68.9716WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Samaná in Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.86 km (19 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/06/20 / 2020-06-02 07:27:11 / June 2, 2020 @ 7:27 am. The temblor was reported at 07:27:11 / 7:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -68.9716° West, latitude 19.7422° North, depth = 29.86 km. Id of earthquake: us6000a47g. Event ids that are associated: us6000a47g.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sánchez, Sabana de La Mar, Miches (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Sánchez (c. 11 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Las Terrenas (c. 7 700 pop).

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 70 km NNE of Samaná, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.9716° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.7422° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70 km NNE of Samaná, 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 2020-06-02 07:27:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-02 07:45:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 234 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 1.025 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000a47g Id of event.
Event Code 6000a47g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a47g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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