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Earthquake felt in N/Central DR 10:55pm Sunday 21 March 2010
Shook our Windows
I haven't signed on to DR1 in a long time. Figured this would be the place to find out about the earthquake since I couldn't catch anything on the news, and the newspaper websites are so behind.
It rattled our windows for a few seconds, pretty hard...enough to have my 10 year old son come running into our room...We live in Santiago.
I haven't signed on to DR1 in a long time. Figured this would be the place to find out about the earthquake since I couldn't catch anything on the news, and the newspaper websites are so behind.
It rattled our windows for a few seconds, pretty hard...enough to have my 10 year old son come running into our room...We live in Santiago.
just now I looked again in Latest Earthquakes in the World - Past 7 days
Magnitude 4.6
Date-Time
* Monday, March 22, 2010 at 02:53:49 UTC
* Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 10:53:49 PM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 19.720?N, 70.929?W
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Distances
* 17 km (10 miles) NNE (22?) from Esperanza, Valverde, Dominican Republic
* 19 km (12 miles) NNW (341?) from Villa Bison?, Santiago, Dominican Republic
* 24 km (15 miles) NE (42?) from Mao, Valverde, Dominican Republic
* 26 km (16 miles) WSW (250?) from Puerto Plata, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
* 170 km (106 miles) NW (323?) from SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 4.1 km (2.5 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST= 42, Nph= 56, Dmin=90.2 km, Rmss=1.29 sec, Gp=108?,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source
* USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID us2010udai
They have revised the depth, too, - 6.2 miles, half what they had before (same as Haiti EQ for depth).
4.6 - Just a little tremor.........
I did not even realize that there was a 4.1 on March 15th 26 mile from Santo Domingo.
It was just a little shake-up,
.... the "BIG ONE" will be when there is a "shake-up" in the government here.
I did not even realize that there was a 4.1 on March 15th 26 mile from Santo Domingo.
It was just a little shake-up,
.... the "BIG ONE" will be when there is a "shake-up" in the government here.
The strongest earthquake ever recorded, the 9.6 in Chile in 1960, was preceded by 'pre-shocks' which caused people to go outside. Relatively few people were killed because when the quake happened, most people were outside of their homes.
There have been 5 quakes/tremors since last night in the D.R. region. A 2.9, a 4.4, a 4.3, a 2.9 and the last one was a 3.7 about 20 minutes ago.
On the 17th of this month in the Puerto Rico area there were more than 30 tremors in one day!! I think that this is justt all normal activity though.
Latest Earthquakes in the World - Past 7 days
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On the 17th of this month in the Puerto Rico area there were more than 30 tremors in one day!! I think that this is justt all normal activity though.
Latest Earthquakes in the World - Past 7 days
Scroll down to see activity over the last week.
Let me correct myself first. It is an earthquake ALARM, not a meter. It does not give you a reading of strength. The system is a simple pendulum that, once shaking, gets in contact with two metal pins and sound an alarm upon contact. The theory is that it detects the sound waves few seconds before the destructive waves. We are only talking about 2-3 seconds before the shake so it is short but It can help you to be alert, at least.
You can buy it online. it comes from California and is called a Quake Alarm.
Ciao
