A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/01/18 / 2018-01-06 14:51:33 / January 6, 2018 @ 2:51 pm. The temblor was detected at 10:51:33 / 10:51 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2018006006. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018006006. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 110 km (68 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -68.657 West, latitude 18.0998 North, depth = 110 km.
Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Pedro de Macorís, Guaymate, Otra Banda (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 31 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.
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