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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Villa González in Dominican Republic

Posted by admin on May 28, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.5275S, -70.8118WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Villa González in Dominican Republic. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/05/25 / 2025-05-28 00:17:42 / May 28, 2025 @ 12:17 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.081 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 00:17:42 / 12:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -70.8118° West, latitude 19.5275° North, depth = 29.081 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qgau. Id of event: us6000qgau.

Close 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 Castillo, Padre Las Casas, Cotuí. The epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Santiago de los Caballeros (c. 1 200 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Puerto Plata (c. 146 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from San Francisco de Macorís (c. 124 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Concepción de La Vega (c. 102 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Bonao (c. 73 300 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Moca (c. 61 800 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km WSW of Villa González, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.8118° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5275° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.081 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km WSW of Villa González, 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 2025-05-28 00:17:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-28 00:43:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 249 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.063 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us6000qgau Id of event.
Event Code 6000qgau An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qgau, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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