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Earthquake: M 4.7 quake strikes near Sabana Buey in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 18.0971S, -70.6096WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (mg/mb) has striked on Friday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Sabana Buey in Dominican Republic. The temblor was reported at 14:13:54 / 2:13 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 32.69 km (20 miles). Global time of event 27/03/15 / 2015-03-27 18:13:54 / March 27, 2015 @ 6:13 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sabana Buey in Dominican Republic, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -70.6096 West, latitude 18.0971 North, depth 32.69 km, unique identifier, us10001ra3.

Close countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Santo Domingo (c. 2 201 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Santo Domingo Oeste (c. 701 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Bella Vista (c. 175 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from San Cristóbal (c. 154 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Santa Cruz de Barahona (c. 77 200 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vallejuelo, Yamasá, Bonao.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.6096° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0971° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km SSW of Sabana Buey, 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 2015-03-27 18:13:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-03-27 20:14:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at,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 0.381 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 27 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 us10001ra3 Id of event.
Event Code 10001ra3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nlvun1,us10001ra3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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