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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Villa Isabela in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.8403S, -71.0541WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Villa Isabela in Dominican Republic. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dk39. Id of event: us6000dk39. Exact location, longitude -71.0541° West, latitude 19.8403° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/02/21 / 2021-02-22 15:06:35 / February 22, 2021 @ 3:06 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:06:35 / 3:06 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jarabacoa, Tenares, Concepción de La Vega (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Santiago de los Caballeros (c. 1 200 000 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Puerto Plata (c. 146 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Concepción de La Vega (c. 102 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Moca (c. 61 800 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Mao (c. 48 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Salcedo (c. 45 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 2 km NNE of Villa Isabela, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.0541° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.8403° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km NNE of Villa Isabela, 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 2021-02-22 15:06:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-22 15:54:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 298 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 0.513 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us6000dk39 Id of event.
Event Code 6000dk39 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dk39, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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