A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Santa Barbara de Samana in Dominican Republic on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16232000. Unique identifier: pr16232000. Global time and date of event 19/08/16 / 2016-08-19 03:54:50 / August 19, 2016 @ 3:54 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 22:54:50 / 10:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.8322 West, latitude 19.6182 North, depth = 30 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30 km (19 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Las Terrenas, Miches, Samaná. The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Las Terrenas (c. 7 700 pop). 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
Did you feel anything?
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: 69 km NE of Santa Barbara de Samana, Dominican Republic.
Copyright © 2016 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.
Leave a Reply