Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 78 km NE of Santa Barbara de Samana, Dominican Republic


Earthquake location 19.7826S, -68.9001WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Santa Barbara de Samana in Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50 km (31 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/06/16 / 2016-06-18 15:53:18 / June 18, 2016 @ 3:53 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr16170004. Event ids that are associated: pr16170004. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:53:18 / 10:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.9001 West, latitude 19.7826 North, depth = 50 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Samaná (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

Did you feel the quake?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 78 km NE of Santa Barbara de Samana, Dominican Republic.

Copyright © 2016 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.9001° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.7826° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km NE of Santa Barbara de Samana, 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 2016-06-18 15:53:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-18 20:58:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 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 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 178 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.93227618 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 331.2 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr16170004 Id of event.
Event Code 16170004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16170004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply