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Earthquake: M 4.7 quake strikes near Luperon in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.841S, -70.947WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (mg/mb) has striked on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Luperon in Dominican Republic. The temblor was reported at 03:11:45 / 3:11 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 22 km (14 miles). Global time of event 2015-01-02 07:11:45 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Luperon in Dominican Republic, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -70.947 West, latitude 19.841 North, depth 22 km.

Close countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). The epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) from Santiago de los Caballeros (c. 1 200 000 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Puerto Plata (c. 146 000 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from San Francisco de Macorís (c. 124 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Concepción de La Vega (c. 102 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Moca (c. 61 800 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jima Abajo, Rincón, Fort Liberté.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.947° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.841° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SSE of Luperon, 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 2015-01-02 19:11:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-01-02 19:16:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 1 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 340 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources at A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.45903911 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111.6 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 at00nhkdbl Id of event.
Event Code 00nhkdbl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS at00nhkdbl A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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