A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:09:52 / 6:09 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 87 km (54 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16292009. Unique identifier: pr16292009. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/10/16 / 2016-10-18 23:09:52 / October 18, 2016 @ 11:09 pm. Exact location, longitude -68.4503° West, latitude 18.0105° North, depth = 87 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Otra Banda, Salvaleón de Higüey, La Romana (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).
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 one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 44 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.
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