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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Neiba in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on July 26, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4274S, -71.4252WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Neiba in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/07/16 / 2016-07-26 16:46:21 / July 26, 2016 @ 4:46 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.21 km (11 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006hv1. Id of event: us20006hv1. The temblor was reported at 12:46:21 / 12:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -71.4252° West, 18.4274° North, depth 17.21 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San José de Ocoa, Port-au-Prince, Delmas 73 (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Port-au-Prince (c. 1 234 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Delmas 73 (c. 382 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Pétionville (c. 283 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Croix des Bouquets (c. 229 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Santa Cruz de Barahona (c. 77 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from San Juan de la Maguana (c. 73 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Azua (c. 59 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Haiti (c. 9 649 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km S of Neiba, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4252° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4274° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km S of Neiba, 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 2016-07-26 16:46:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-26 19:03:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 326 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 0.293 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us20006hv1 Id of event.
Event Code 20006hv1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006hv1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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