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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near San Rafael del Yuma in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on August 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.3903S, -68.6841WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma in Dominican Republic on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -68.6841 West, latitude 18.3903 North, depth = 156.46 km. The temblor was picked up at 07:42:15 / 7:42 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000g3f5. Ids that are associated to the event: pt18216050, us1000g3f5. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 156.46 km (97 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/08/18 / 2018-08-04 11:42:15 / August 4, 2018 @ 11:42 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (40 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Los Llanos, Quisqueya, Miches.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 4 km SSW of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6841° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.3903° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 156.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SSW of San Rafael del Yuma, 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 2018-08-04 11:42:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-04 11:57:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 285 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 ,pt,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 0.313 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us1000g3f5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000g3f5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt18216050,us1000g3f5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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