A minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) strikes 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018199000. Id of event: pr2018199000. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 49 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -68.2426 West, latitude 17.923 North, depth = 49 km. Global time and date of event 18/07/18 / 2018-07-18 03:47:43 / July 18, 2018 @ 3:47 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 22:47:43 / 10:47 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 63 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.
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