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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Guaymate in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on December 5, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.5864S, -69.0365WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Guaymate in Dominican Republic. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/12/16 / 2016-12-05 00:44:03 / December 5, 2016 @ 12:44 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 137.4 km (85 miles). Exact location, longitude -69.0365° West, latitude 18.5864° North, depth = 137.4 km. The temblor was reported at 20:44:03 / 8:44 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00ohospe, us10007ev5. Id of event: us10007ev5. A tsunami warning has been issued near Guaymate in Dominican Republic (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 31 km (19 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Villa Francisca (c. 50 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Las Terrenas, La Julia, La Agustina.

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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km W of Guaymate, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.0365° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5864° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 137.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km W 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 2016-12-05 00:44:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-05 01:03:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 14 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 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 315 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 0.626 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us10007ev5 Id of event.
Event Code 10007ev5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ohospe,us10007ev5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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