A minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Exact location of earthquake, -68.8301° West, 17.908° North, depth 83 km. Unique identifier: pr2018186007. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018186007. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 83 km (52 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 05/07/18 / 2018-07-05 13:13:38 / July 5, 2018 @ 1:13 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 08:13:38 / 8:13 am (local time epicenter).
The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaymate, San Rafael del Yuma, La Romana (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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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: 57 km SSW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.
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