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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near La Plaine in Dominica

Posted by admin on December 12, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.3543S, -61.2666WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from La Plaine in Dominica. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/12/18 / 2018-12-12 01:17:13 / December 12, 2018 @ 1:17 am. Id of earthquake: us2000isni. Event ids that are associated: us2000isni. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:17:13 / 9:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -61.2666 West, latitude 15.3543 North, depth = 23.25 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 23.25 km (14 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Capesterre-Belle-Eau, Le Robert, Trois-Rivières. Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Le Robert (c. 23 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Sainte-Marie (c. 20 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Capesterre-Belle-Eau (c. 19 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Saint-Joseph (c. 17 000 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Roseau (c. 16 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominica (c. 73 000 pop), Guadeloupe (c. 443 000 pop), Martinique (c. 433 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 2 km NW of La Plaine, Dominica.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -61.2666° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.3543° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km NW of La Plaine, Dominica Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-12 01:17:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-12 01:55:31 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 178 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 0.591 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000isni Id of event.
Event Code 2000isni An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000isni, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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