A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/05/18 / 2018-05-13 00:48:51 / May 13, 2018 @ 12:48 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 125 km (78 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018133001. Unique identifier: pr2018133001. Exact location of event, depth 125 km, -67.866° West, 18.8591° North. The temblor was picked up at 19:48:51 / 7:48 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fifty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-eight 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. 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: 64 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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