Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Guaymate in Dominican Republic

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guaymate in Dominican Republic on Sunday. Unique identifier: us20005bj6. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005bj6. The temblor was detected at 02:06:23 / 2:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.981 West, latitude 18.541 North, depth = 114 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 114 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/03/16 / 2016-03-20 06:06:23 / March 20, 2016 @ 6:06 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Villa Francisca (c. 50 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ciudad Nueva, Villa Francisca, Villa Consuelo (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.981° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.541° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	114 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km S of Guaymate, 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	2016-03-20 06:06:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-21 22:20:39	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	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	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	,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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us20005bj6	Id of event.
Event Code	20005bj6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005bj6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.7 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-68.981° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

18.541° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

114 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

5km S of Guaymate, 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

2016-03-20 06:06:23

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-03-21 22:20:39

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

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

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

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.24 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

mwr

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us20005bj6

Id of event.

Event Code

20005bj6

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us20005bj6,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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