A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma in Dominican Republic. Unique identifier: pr2018141011. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018141011. Exact location of earthquake, -68.75° West, 18.2676° North, depth 64 km. The temblor was detected at 19:19:50 / 7:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/05/18 / 2018-05-21 23:19:50 / May 21, 2018 @ 11:19 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 64 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hato Mayor del Rey, Quisqueya, Santa Cruz de El Seibo (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 19 km SSW of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic.
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