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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Miches in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on July 5, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1523S, -68.6773WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Sunday. Id of earthquake: us7000aigd. Event ids that are associated: us7000aigd. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/07/20 / 2020-07-05 22:36:48 / July 5, 2020 @ 10:36 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.6773 West, latitude 19.1523 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 22:36:48 / 10:36 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Valle, Sabana de La Mar, Hato Mayor del Rey (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6773° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1523° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43 km ENE of Miches, 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 2020-07-05 22:36:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-05 22:49:48 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 129 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 0.693 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 229 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 us7000aigd Id of event.
Event Code 7000aigd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000aigd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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