A minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Salvaleon de Higuey in Dominican Republic on Saturday. Global time and date of event 26/05/18 / 2018-05-26 14:53:19 / May 26, 2018 @ 2:53 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2018146010. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018146010. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 121 km (75 miles). The 3.15-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:53:19 / 10:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 121 km, -68.7695° West, 18.736° North.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Samaná, Los Llanos, Sabana de La Mar (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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