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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Sanchez in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on August 26, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1586S, -69.6267WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Sanchez in Dominican Republic on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 89.47 km (56 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 89.47 km, -69.6267° West, 19.1586° North. Id of earthquake: us20006uea. Event ids that are associated: at00ocjeub, us20006uea. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/08/16 / 2016-08-26 22:08:35 / August 26, 2016 @ 10:08 pm. The temblor was picked up at 18:08:35 / 6:08 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Sanchez in Dominican Republic (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Cristóbal, Concepción de La Vega, Guaymate. Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Santo Domingo (c. 2 201 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Santo Domingo Oeste (c. 701 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Bella Vista (c. 175 700 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from San Cristóbal (c. 154 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from San Francisco de Macorís (c. 124 800 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Concepción de La Vega (c. 102 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km S of Sanchez, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.6267° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1586° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 89.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km S of Sanchez, 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 2016-08-26 22:08:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-26 22:39:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 41 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 324 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 1.073 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us20006uea Id of event.
Event Code 20006uea An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ocjeub,us20006uea, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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