A minor earthquake magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/18 / 2018-07-06 00:37:34 / July 6, 2018 @ 12:37 am. The 3.25-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:37:34 / 7:37 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -68.0915° West, 19.056° North, depth 37 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018187000. Unique identifier: pr2018187000.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda, Punta Cana. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 61 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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