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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Ramon Santana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on March 23, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.5478S, -69.0853WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Ramon Santana in Dominican Republic on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 03:41:20 / 3:41 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 112.18 km (70 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/03/18 / 2018-03-23 07:41:20 / March 23, 2018 @ 7:41 am. Event id: us1000d7v3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d7v3. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.0853 West, latitude 18.5478 North, depth = 112.18 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bella Vista, La Julia, La Agustina. The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Bella Vista (c. 175 700 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Villa Francisca (c. 50 200 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 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 six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 9 km E of Ramon Santana, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.0853° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5478° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 112.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km E of Ramon Santana, 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 2018-03-23 07:41:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-23 08:06:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 259 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 0.669 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us1000d7v3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000d7v3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d7v3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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