A minor earthquake magnitude 3.35 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 119 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (74 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/05/18 / 2018-05-02 00:52:10 / May 2, 2018 @ 12:52 am. Event id: pr2018122000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018122000. The temblor was reported at 19:52:10 / 7:52 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 77 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -67.7185° West, latitude 19.4455° North, depth = 77 km.
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 119 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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