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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Juan Lopez Abajo in Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.498S, -70.4503WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Juan Lopez Abajo in Dominican Republic on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 14:23:42 / 2:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -70.4503° West, latitude 19.498° North, depth = 27.57 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.57 km (17 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/04/16 / 2016-04-28 18:23:42 / April 28, 2016 @ 6:23 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005caa. Id of event: us10005caa.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 26 km (16 miles) from Santiago de los Caballeros (c. 1 200 000 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Puerto Plata (c. 146 000 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from San Francisco de Macorís (c. 124 800 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Concepción de La Vega (c. 102 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Bonao (c. 73 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monción, Piedra Blanca, Constanza.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km NE of Juan Lopez Abajo, Dominican Republic.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.4503° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.498° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NE of Juan Lopez Abajo, 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 2016-04-28 18:23:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-28 22:12:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 179 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 0.271 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us10005caa Id of event.
Event Code 10005caa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005caa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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