A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Exact location of event, longitude -68.4645 West, latitude 18.058 North, depth = 95 km. The temblor was detected at 12:46:57 / 12:46 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr15216008. Event ids that are associated: pr15216008. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 95 km (59 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/08/15 / 2015-08-04 17:46:57 / August 4, 2015 @ 5:46 pm.
Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaymate, Otra Banda, La Romana (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 38 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.
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