A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/07/18 / 2018-07-05 06:54:59 / July 5, 2018 @ 6:54 am. Exact location of earthquake, -67.9543° West, 18.2626° North, depth 98 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018186004. Unique identifier: pr2018186004. The temblor was detected at 01:54:59 / 1:54 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 98 km (61 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Event epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rincón, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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: 59 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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