A minor earthquake magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Santa Barbara de Samana in Dominican Republic. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018186014. Id of event: pr2018186014. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 05/07/18 / 2018-07-05 14:29:24 / July 5, 2018 @ 2:29 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.42-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:29:24 / 9:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -68.9178° West, latitude 19.5095° North, depth = 55 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sánchez, El Valle, Sabana de La Mar (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Sánchez (c. 11 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Las Terrenas (c. 7 700 pop). 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 six, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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