re: EARTHQUAKE Just Hit My House! & MORE
Earthquake Details
* This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude 5.3
Date-Time
* Thursday, January 05, 2012 at 09:35:29 UTC
* Thursday, January 05, 2012 at 05:35:29 AM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 18.422°N, 70.419°W
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles)
Region DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Distances 55 km (34 miles) W of SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic
75 km (46 miles) ENE of Barahona, Dominican Republic
99 km (61 miles) S of San Francisco de Macoris, D.R.
1295 km (804 miles) SE of Miami, Florida
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 16.4 km (10.2 miles); depth +/- 3 km (1.9 miles)
Parameters NST= 49, Nph= 55, Dmin=53.4 km, Rmss=1.38 sec, Gp= 65°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7
Source
* Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID usc0007gh0
Seismologists predicted a big one (8.0) around Santiago "soon". Gee thats only an hour away from me!!!
More info.:
“The earthquake of 5.5 followed immediately by an aftershock of 5.3 on the Richter scale”
The following was also predicted:
"Caribbean 2.Haiti & Dominican Republic,SE Cuba & Jamaica Region
within ˜600 km of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, at Lat 18.54 & Lon -72.334
M4.4-M6.4
expected about
Jan 5 +/-3 days
(posted 0300 hours 17th Dec)"
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