A minor earthquake magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) strikes 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude -67.9906 West, latitude 18.2431 North, depth = 15 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:25:12 / 8:25 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/02/18 / 2018-02-06 01:25:12 / February 6, 2018 @ 1:25 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 15 km (9 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018037000. Unique identifier: pr2018037000.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 58 km (36 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 57 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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