A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 168 km (104 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/09/15 / 2015-09-22 13:06:09 / September 22, 2015 @ 1:06 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -68.564 West, latitude 19.1506 North, depth = 168 km. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:06:09 / 8:06 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr15265008. Event ids that are associated: pr15265008.
Epicenter of the event was 61 km (38 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hato Mayor del Rey, Samaná, San Rafael del Yuma. Nearby 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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