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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Las Salinas in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on November 30, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2048S, -71.4562WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Las Salinas in Dominican Republic. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cl4u. Id of event: us7000cl4u. Global time and date of event 30/11/20 / 2020-11-30 11:12:41 / November 30, 2020 @ 11:12 am UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:12:41 / 11:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -71.4562° West, 18.2048° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Haiti (c. 9 649 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 97 km (60 miles) from Delmas 73 (c. 382 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Pétionville (c. 283 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Croix des Bouquets (c. 229 100 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Santa Cruz de Barahona (c. 77 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Juan de la Maguana (c. 73 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Azua (c. 59 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Thomazeau (c. 52 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mirebalais, Delmas 73, Pétionville.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 16 km WSW of Las Salinas, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4562° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2048° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km WSW of Las Salinas, 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 2020-11-30 11:12:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-30 11:25:17 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 326 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 0.183 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us7000cl4u Id of event.
Event Code 7000cl4u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cl4u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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