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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near La Romana in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on January 5, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.39S, -69.0227WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from La Romana in Dominican Republic. All ids that are associated to the event: pt20005001, us70006uyb. Unique identifier: us70006uyb. Global time and date of event 05/01/20 / 2020-01-05 08:29:00 / January 5, 2020 @ 8:29 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.0227 West, latitude 18.39 North, depth = 113.67 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:29:00 / 4:29 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 113.67 km (71 miles). 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 Ensanche Luperón, Villa Consuelo, San Carlos (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Villa Francisca (c. 50 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km SW of La Romana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.0227° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.39° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SW of La Romana, 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 2020-01-05 08:29:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-05 08:44:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 299 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 0.521 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us70006uyb Id of event.
Event Code 70006uyb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20005001,us70006uyb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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