A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.47 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from La Romana in Dominican Republic. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/05/18 / 2018-05-21 09:20:52 / May 21, 2018 @ 9:20 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 167 km (104 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.867 West, latitude 18.489 North, depth = 167 km. The 3.47-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:20:52 / 5:20 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2018141006. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018141006.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Boca Chica, El Valle, Los Llanos. Epicenter of the earthquake was 45 km (28 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 13 km ENE of La Romana, Dominican Republic.
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