A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The temblor was picked up at 05:09:14 / 5:09 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 70 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15310004. Id of event: pr15310004. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/11/15 / 2015-11-06 10:09:14 / November 6, 2015 @ 10:09 am. Exact location of earthquake, -68.5185° West, 17.9283° North, depth 70 km.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salvaleón de Higüey, Punta Cana, La Romana. Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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