A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The temblor was detected at 15:33:09 / 3:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/08/16 / 2016-08-14 19:33:09 / August 14, 2016 @ 7:33 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 148 km (92 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -68.379 West, latitude 18.1828 North, depth = 148 km. Event id: pr16227003. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16227003.
Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guaymate, La Romana, Otra Banda (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 32 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.
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