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Light earthquake, 4.18 mag was detected near Miches in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on February 3, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0905S, -68.8785WA light earthquake magnitude 4.18 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/02/21 / 2021-02-03 16:03:23 / February 3, 2021 @ 4:03 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -68.8785 West, latitude 19.0905 North, depth = 8 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000de70, pr2021034012. Id of event: pr2021034012. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 16:03:23 / 4:03 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bayaguana, Los Llanos, San Pedro de Macorís. Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.18 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.8785° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0905° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 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 2021-02-03 16:03:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-03 17:01:50 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 269 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7613 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 pr2021034012 Id of event.
Event Code 2021034012 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000de70,pr2021034012, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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