Quakedle
Puzzle #75 was 11 km W of Guaymate, Dominican Republic.
Quakedle is an educational game. Event details and tsunami indicators must not be used for emergency decisions; follow official local authorities and current USGS notices.
USGS — Tectonic Plates of the Earth
How it scored
- Magnitude
- M4.8 — light class
- Magnitude type
- mww — W-phase moment magnitude
- Depth
- 107.4 km — intermediate
- Region
- The Caribbean
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator not set
- Felt reports
- 123 DYFI reports
- PAGER alert
- No PAGER alert color reported
- Tectonic plates
- Caribbean Plate · North American Plate · South American Plate
- Tectonic context
- The Caribbean Plate is bounded by subduction and strike-slip systems; local fault geometry varies around the island arcs and northern South America.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M4.8. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Light (M4.0–4.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 107.4 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Intermediate (70–300 km)
- USGS locates the event at “11 km W of Guaymate, Dominican Republic”. Which broad authored region matches?
- The Caribbean
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- No — USGS did not set the event’s tsunami indicator; that is not a forecast.
- The event uses magnitude type “mww”. What does that code mean?
- Mww — W-phase moment magnitude