Santo Domingo.- The State University UASD Seismology Institute reported a 4.2 magnitude quake, 19 kilometers south of Santo Domingo around 10:53am Dominican Republic time.
The tremor was detected at 29 kilometers in depth in the Caribbean Sea, and felt in La Vega, Espaillat Santiago and Puerto Plata provinces.
Information from the US Geodetic Survey:
Magnitude 4.5 - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 2012 January 24 14:33:29 UTC
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude 4.5
Date-Time Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 14:33:29 UTC Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 10:33:29 AM at epicenter Location 19.586°N, 70.061°W Depth 2.8 km (1.7 miles) (poorly constrained) Region
Distances 32 km (20 miles) NW (316°) from Nagua, María Trinidad Sánchez, 37 km (23 miles) NNE (32°) from San Francisco de Macorís, Duarte, 39 km (24 miles) ENE (62°) from Salcedo, Salcedo, 121 km (75 miles) N (355°) from SANTO DOMINGO;
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 6.2 km (3.9 miles); depth +/- 17.9 km (11.1 miles) Parameters NST= 71, Nph= 71, Dmin=125.8 km, Rmss=1.1 sec, Gp= 47°,M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=5 Source U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center:World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
Written by: williom, 24 Jan 2012 11:17 AM
From: United States
Not good! Things are getting VERY serious now. Not that they weren't very serious before...
Written by: xwill7, 24 Jan 2012 11:47 AM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
willom,
Mild quakes happen all over the world every year... Don't they?
Written by: RoyStone, 24 Jan 2012 12:04 PM
From: Australia
I'm not a seismologist, but maybe a number of small releases of energy are reducing the probability of things building up to a big one?
Written by: Atabey, 24 Jan 2012 12:06 PM
From: United States, NYC
Hopefully these episodes are displacing pressure along the faults and the real big ones are put off for many centuries to come. Hispaniola does not need another major earthquake in 2012. But Nature will adjust itself to her own time table regardless of our best intentions or plans. In the scheme of things, Nature rules.
Here's some info:
http://www.weatherexplained.com/Vol-1/Earthquakes.htmlWritten by: RoyStone, 24 Jan 2012 12:19 PM
From: Australia
Atabey, no, God decides.
Ask the experts, his representatives, the church.
Otherwise, what are we housing, feeding, giving them funny hats and paying them for?
Written by: temetito, 24 Jan 2012 12:35 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Sorry to tell u that in order to release the energy of one magnitude 6 quake, u need 32 magnitude 5 quakes.
Written by: danny00, 24 Jan 2012 12:49 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
u know the song don't worry?
with the 1st responders the dr has and with the training they have behind them and the 1st responders supplies they will carry with them, why worry?
also u also know the dr government u then know that they the 1st responders all of them have certification dont u?
what u need to do if the big one comes is do like the so-called capt of the cruise ship did a few weeks ago, and also what the so-called army in italy did in june of 1943, s....t. 'wave the white flag with your hands up in the air. like they did when the english and american army came face to face with them. [they left their so-called german army buddies to die}.
Written by: danny00, 24 Jan 2012 12:54 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
I'm not a seismologist, but maybe a number of small releases of energy are reducing the probability of things building up to a big one?
MAYBE YOUR NOT A SEISMLOLGIST BUT THEIR ARE MANY OF THEM ON THIS SITE AND IN THE DR,
S....T MANY OF THEM WHEN THEY WANT TO BECOME A DOCTOR
THEY JUST SAY IAM A DOCTOR, BAM AND YOUR ONE DOCTOR...
HAVE A GREAT DAY IN LA-LA LAND.
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
I can only repeat that for two or three weeks before the big Haiti quake , we were having small tremors on a very regular basis in the east and I was thinking we were in for some thing very big ,,The siesmologist have told us for years that we are between two fault lines so we have always known that but they have not added to our knowledge for years except after the event
Written by: RoyStone, 24 Jan 2012 1:16 PM
From: Australia
Thanks, temetito,
just what I needed to feel safe.
So what do we do?
Continue to barricade ourselves inside out homes at night, so we don't get mugged and robbed, or open everything up so we can get out quickly when the roof starts falling in and the kitchen bursts into flames?
Hell, where did I leave my rosary-beads and injection-molded Jesus on the cross?
Written by: lcabrera, 24 Jan 2012 1:22 PM
From: United States
Brace yourself everyone!!!
Written by: williom, 24 Jan 2012 1:30 PM
From: United States
Ricky- What exactly do you want from the scientists? Did you want them to pinpoint January 12, 2010 at 4:53 PM local time? Roy clearly answered you in the other article and you came back the same. In 2008, Geologists have meetings in the Caribbean Geological Conference, DR and Haiti to warn us of an imminent 7.2 quake in P-au-P, and SD.
Hey, Earthquakes are not Hurricanes.
From: United States
Roy Stone: Who is Sam Harris?
From: Canada
Roy ... another position is that of the Christian which is that God is loving and kind which would then suggest a positive take on his character thus leaving open the door of more scrutiny to the negative ...
From: Canada
temetito ... is wish your math was wrong but I believe you are correct and this then is a strong indication that another very large event will happen ... even the BBC yesterday was commenting on the Japanse capital of Tokyo getting nailed by a major quake in the next few years ...
Written by: RoyStone, 24 Jan 2012 2:10 PM
From: Australia
MasGrande, I'm glad you asked:
Sam Harris (born 1967) is an American author, neuroscientist, as well as the co-founder and CEO of Project Reason.
He is the author of The End of Faith, which was published in 2004 and appeared on The New York Times best seller list for 33 weeks. The book also won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award in 2005 for nonfiction. In 2006 Harris published his book Letter to a Christian Nation, a response to criticism of The End of Faith. This work was followed by The Moral Landscape published in 2010, and his long-form essay Lying in 2011.
Harris is a well-known contemporary critic of religion, a member of the New Atheism movement, and a proponent of scientific skepticism. He is also an advocate for the separation of church and state, freedom of religion, and the liberty to criticize religion. Harris has written numerous articles for the Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Times, Newsweek, and the journal Nature.
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
williom.. I would like information saying that a severe earthquake is imminent along a certain fault line and within say a 300 mile range in the next several weeks based on certain information. Prior to the bih quake in Haiti , There were no warnings for haiti and the earthquake folllowed a line to the north from the epicentre near Port au Prince to around the Santiago area ..on a fault line that is totally different to the fault line around Punta Cana Higuey and la Romana where we had been experiencing almost daily shakes.
Now ,,,I do not believe they can predict very much at all uless they were all sleeping or on vacations..The only thing they seem to be able to do is to give warnings about volcanoes
Written by: RonEvane, 24 Jan 2012 9:42 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Why is everyone freaking out about quakes? What's the big deal? If you own a penthouse in SD, rent it out; then wait for a big one. If after the shaking, it's still standing, then you know it's safe to inhabit it.
If you own a house in suburbia, re-enforce it with re-bars and concrete. It'll cost you a little, but bring peace of mind. If you're thinking of building a home in the campo, (as I am ), construct it with a 4mt.- deep basement, (for all my wine), and incorporate massive concrete support columns. It'll never come down, believe me. My family's home in East SD is built that way. Guaranteed to stand until the second coming of Christ! ...No quake or hurricane will ever dent it!.. No fuss, no muss.
Written by: RoyStone, 24 Jan 2012 9:55 PM
From: Australia
danny00, 24 Jan 2012 12:54 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
I'm not a seismologist, but maybe a number of small releases of energy are reducing the probability of things building up to a big one?
MAYBE YOUR NOT A SEISMLOLGIST BUT THEIR ARE MANY OF THEM ON THIS SITE AND IN THE DR,
S....T MANY OF THEM WHEN THEY WANT TO BECOME A DOCTOR
THEY JUST SAY IAM A DOCTOR, BAM AND YOUR ONE DOCTOR...
HAVE A GREAT DAY IN LA-LA LAND.
Written by: RoyStone, 24 Jan 2012 9:58 PM
From: Australia
“Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this,
or he doesn’t care to, or he doesn’t exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary.
Take your pick, and choose wisely.”
Sam Harris
Written by: RoyStone, 24 Jan 2012 10:03 PM
From: Australia
Ron,
You need to read up on the physics behind earthquake-proof buildings. It is not about making them as strong and rigid as you can. It is about allowing movement and flexing, without coming apart or collapsing. If you don't believe it, look at the photos of the strong, highly-reinforced, pre-stressed concrete bridges that have collapsed during earthquakes.
Written by: RonEvane, 25 Jan 2012 12:25 AM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Roy, You're right. There's rigidity and and there's flexibility. I've read about new-fangled ways to erect buildings to cope with myriad challenges, such as quakes, wind, and all kinds of wheather conditions.
The tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, had to incorporate ways to cope with all this, least of which, was rigidity.
But it works quite well with small structures. Thus: build it solid!!
Written by: RoyStone, 25 Jan 2012 3:14 AM
From: Australia
There's even better advice than "build solid"
"build elsewhere"
Australia is on the other end of the seismological scale. It's called the Great Australian Shield
(also at the other end of the earth I admit)
That's what makes it the best place in the world to store nuclear waste.
Also in the center, there are areas with no people for hundreds of kilometers.
Since the Dominican Republic is bragging about a Guinness Book of World Records stunt, did you know the tallest residential building in the world is the Eureka Tower in my city of Melbourne? It was also voted the Most Liveable City In The World by latest Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Liveability Survey.
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
oh Roy i am sure there are hundreds of Dominicans just waiting for you to return there ..DR will not miss you that much that they would prevent your repatriation
Written by: RoyStone, 25 Jan 2012 8:13 AM
From: Australia
Not hundreds, Ricky, I have not met that many yet, but I'm working on it.
Unfortunately for you, neither apostasy, heresy nor blasphemy are grounds for deportation any more. Maybe it is considered not in the national interest for telling it as it is?
Thanks, I'll be more careful in future.
From: Dominican Republic, Santiago
Serious as the subject is it saddens me that so many take time to write so much spam.
The truth is that DR is not prepared to handle a tragedy of any kind or quake of huge magnitude. LF will surely be out of the country. If it happens we will be worse off than Haiti. Why? Because we have more to lose.
DR does not have a functioning public health system. We still have major blackouts every day. We still do not have potable water. We still do not have a army or police force that is dependable or trustworthy. We still do not have a working 911 system. We still do not have officials who do what they are paid to do. It would take a disaster of major proportion to emphasize what I just said.
Just imagine Santiago if we get hit? Who will keep order? The police? LOL. Who will rescue the wounded? The ambulances? LOL. Where will they take the woulded? LOL On and on.
It is a very serious problem and I hope readers offer some sane comments
Written by: RoyStone, 25 Jan 2012 8:59 AM
From: Australia
I took a quick little survey in our village yesterday, asking people what causes earthquakes. All but one had no idea what-so-ever. However what was of greater concern, is it did not bother anyone that they did not know and felt no compulsion to go and find out. It is no wonder the government place little importance on education, and the ancient superstitions of Voodoo and Christianity are still practiced here.
CarmenReyes, your points are absolutely valid, however things will not change as long as we believe we are in the hands of Jesus. Why do you think people don't wear seat-belts when they have a rosary dangling from their rear-view mirror and "Jesus loves me" on the windscreen?
You can bet the that when the next big one hits, the churches will exploit it to the full, since it was caused by our disobedience if God (read church).
Written by: danny00, 25 Jan 2012 11:25 AM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
02 p.m. | Updated At the end of regular trading Tuesday, Exxon was again the most valuable company. Apple’s market cap was $346.74 billion vs. Exxon’s $348.32 billion.
THE MOST VALUABLE COMPANY IN THE WORLD.
!WOW! LOVE THE UNITED STATES.
ANY WAY IF THE BIG ONE COMES USE YOUR I PHONE FOR HELP.
GOD BLESS STEVE JOBS.
Written by: danny00, 25 Jan 2012 11:38 AM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
The Most Powerful Office In The World
Is The President of the United States!
t the President of the United States the leader of the Western World, the man with his hand on the nuclear trigger, the head of a ten-trillion dollar nation?
HEAD OF THE WORLD BIGGEST ECONOMY, THE HUMAN RACE HAS EVER SEEN.
HEAD OF THE LARGEST MILITARY FORCE IN THE WORLD.
HEY! NOT LONG AGO MANY ON THIS SITE WROTE THE GULF OIL SPILL WILL DOOM THE UNITED STATES, ITS THE END FOR UNCLE SAM, REALLY? S....T THE GULF AREA WHERE THE OIL WENT INTO THE WATER WELL GUESS WHAT THIS YEAR THEY HAD THEIR BEST TOURISTS SEASON FROM THE PAST 5 YEARS OR SO TOURISTS ARE COMING BY THE MILLIONS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
SORRY TO DISAPPOINT U UNCLE SAM HATERS. SORRY INDEED....LOL
Written by: RonEvane, 25 Jan 2012 1:25 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Hey, Globe trotter.
What does all that idiotic blabber have to do with quakes and DR?
You've got to be mentally challenged! Loco burro.
Written by: RoyStone, 25 Jan 2012 2:38 PM
From: Australia
Ron, nothing to do with quakes, definitely loco, but there is some ironic wisdom in there too, and some interesting points. I only wish he'd stop writing everything in upper-case. Maybe he doesn't realize it actually makes it harder to read.
From: Dominican Republic, I dislike all politicians and their afiliated parties... "I simply say it AS IT IS!!"
hey RoyStone, these beer big belly Dominicans will drive you nuts here. They are not used to dealing with someone of your caliber. They rather sh**t-chat about smack than to have a real conversation about something scientific or of real valor. As a result, they will hate most of your comments.
Written by: RoyStone, 25 Jan 2012 6:53 PM
From: Australia
Thank you, JPDTrinity, but I take each minus as a win and every grey-out as a home-run. However I wouldn't mind having some serious opposition sometimes, rater than mindless, xenophobic, boring insults.
From: Canada
Roy ... yeah that UPPERCASE stuff is brutal ... take note everyone ... NEXT!
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Mild quakes happen all over the world every year... Don't they?
Here's some info: http://www.weatherexplained.com/Vol-1/Earthquakes.html
Ask the experts, his representatives, the church.
Otherwise, what are we housing, feeding, giving them funny hats and paying them for?
with the 1st responders the dr has and with the training they have behind them and the 1st responders supplies they will carry with them, why worry?
also u also know the dr government u then know that they the 1st responders all of them have certification dont u?
what u need to do if the big one comes is do like the so-called capt of the cruise ship did a few weeks ago, and also what the so-called army in italy did in june of 1943, s....t. 'wave the white flag with your hands up in the air. like they did when the english and american army came face to face with them. [they left their so-called german army buddies to die}.
MAYBE YOUR NOT A SEISMLOLGIST BUT THEIR ARE MANY OF THEM ON THIS SITE AND IN THE DR,
S....T MANY OF THEM WHEN THEY WANT TO BECOME A DOCTOR
THEY JUST SAY IAM A DOCTOR, BAM AND YOUR ONE DOCTOR...
HAVE A GREAT DAY IN LA-LA LAND.
just what I needed to feel safe.
So what do we do?
Continue to barricade ourselves inside out homes at night, so we don't get mugged and robbed, or open everything up so we can get out quickly when the roof starts falling in and the kitchen bursts into flames?
Hell, where did I leave my rosary-beads and injection-molded Jesus on the cross?
Hey, Earthquakes are not Hurricanes.
Sam Harris (born 1967) is an American author, neuroscientist, as well as the co-founder and CEO of Project Reason.
He is the author of The End of Faith, which was published in 2004 and appeared on The New York Times best seller list for 33 weeks. The book also won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award in 2005 for nonfiction. In 2006 Harris published his book Letter to a Christian Nation, a response to criticism of The End of Faith. This work was followed by The Moral Landscape published in 2010, and his long-form essay Lying in 2011.
Harris is a well-known contemporary critic of religion, a member of the New Atheism movement, and a proponent of scientific skepticism. He is also an advocate for the separation of church and state, freedom of religion, and the liberty to criticize religion. Harris has written numerous articles for the Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Times, Newsweek, and the journal Nature.
Now ,,,I do not believe they can predict very much at all uless they were all sleeping or on vacations..The only thing they seem to be able to do is to give warnings about volcanoes
Why is everyone freaking out about quakes? What's the big deal? If you own a penthouse in SD, rent it out; then wait for a big one. If after the shaking, it's still standing, then you know it's safe to inhabit it.
If you own a house in suburbia, re-enforce it with re-bars and concrete. It'll cost you a little, but bring peace of mind. If you're thinking of building a home in the campo, (as I am ), construct it with a 4mt.- deep basement, (for all my wine), and incorporate massive concrete support columns. It'll never come down, believe me. My family's home in East SD is built that way. Guaranteed to stand until the second coming of Christ! ...No quake or hurricane will ever dent it!.. No fuss, no muss.
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
I'm not a seismologist, but maybe a number of small releases of energy are reducing the probability of things building up to a big one?
MAYBE YOUR NOT A SEISMLOLGIST BUT THEIR ARE MANY OF THEM ON THIS SITE AND IN THE DR,
S....T MANY OF THEM WHEN THEY WANT TO BECOME A DOCTOR
THEY JUST SAY IAM A DOCTOR, BAM AND YOUR ONE DOCTOR...
HAVE A GREAT DAY IN LA-LA LAND.
or he doesn’t care to, or he doesn’t exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary.
Take your pick, and choose wisely.”
Sam Harris
You need to read up on the physics behind earthquake-proof buildings. It is not about making them as strong and rigid as you can. It is about allowing movement and flexing, without coming apart or collapsing. If you don't believe it, look at the photos of the strong, highly-reinforced, pre-stressed concrete bridges that have collapsed during earthquakes.
Roy, You're right. There's rigidity and and there's flexibility. I've read about new-fangled ways to erect buildings to cope with myriad challenges, such as quakes, wind, and all kinds of wheather conditions.
The tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, had to incorporate ways to cope with all this, least of which, was rigidity.
But it works quite well with small structures. Thus: build it solid!!
"build elsewhere"
Australia is on the other end of the seismological scale. It's called the Great Australian Shield
(also at the other end of the earth I admit)
That's what makes it the best place in the world to store nuclear waste.
Also in the center, there are areas with no people for hundreds of kilometers.
Since the Dominican Republic is bragging about a Guinness Book of World Records stunt, did you know the tallest residential building in the world is the Eureka Tower in my city of Melbourne? It was also voted the Most Liveable City In The World by latest Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Liveability Survey.
Unfortunately for you, neither apostasy, heresy nor blasphemy are grounds for deportation any more. Maybe it is considered not in the national interest for telling it as it is?
Thanks, I'll be more careful in future.
The truth is that DR is not prepared to handle a tragedy of any kind or quake of huge magnitude. LF will surely be out of the country. If it happens we will be worse off than Haiti. Why? Because we have more to lose.
DR does not have a functioning public health system. We still have major blackouts every day. We still do not have potable water. We still do not have a army or police force that is dependable or trustworthy. We still do not have a working 911 system. We still do not have officials who do what they are paid to do. It would take a disaster of major proportion to emphasize what I just said.
Just imagine Santiago if we get hit? Who will keep order? The police? LOL. Who will rescue the wounded? The ambulances? LOL. Where will they take the woulded? LOL On and on.
It is a very serious problem and I hope readers offer some sane comments
CarmenReyes, your points are absolutely valid, however things will not change as long as we believe we are in the hands of Jesus. Why do you think people don't wear seat-belts when they have a rosary dangling from their rear-view mirror and "Jesus loves me" on the windscreen?
You can bet the that when the next big one hits, the churches will exploit it to the full, since it was caused by our disobedience if God (read church).
THE MOST VALUABLE COMPANY IN THE WORLD.
!WOW! LOVE THE UNITED STATES.
ANY WAY IF THE BIG ONE COMES USE YOUR I PHONE FOR HELP.
GOD BLESS STEVE JOBS.
Is The President of the United States!
t the President of the United States the leader of the Western World, the man with his hand on the nuclear trigger, the head of a ten-trillion dollar nation?
HEAD OF THE WORLD BIGGEST ECONOMY, THE HUMAN RACE HAS EVER SEEN.
HEAD OF THE LARGEST MILITARY FORCE IN THE WORLD.
HEY! NOT LONG AGO MANY ON THIS SITE WROTE THE GULF OIL SPILL WILL DOOM THE UNITED STATES, ITS THE END FOR UNCLE SAM, REALLY? S....T THE GULF AREA WHERE THE OIL WENT INTO THE WATER WELL GUESS WHAT THIS YEAR THEY HAD THEIR BEST TOURISTS SEASON FROM THE PAST 5 YEARS OR SO TOURISTS ARE COMING BY THE MILLIONS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
SORRY TO DISAPPOINT U UNCLE SAM HATERS. SORRY INDEED....LOL
Hey, Globe trotter.
What does all that idiotic blabber have to do with quakes and DR?
You've got to be mentally challenged! Loco burro.