A minor earthquake magnitude 3.37 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018206006. Id of event: pr2018206006. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 100 km (62 miles). The temblor was detected at 15:38:56 / 3:38 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 25/07/18 / 2018-07-25 20:38:56 / July 25, 2018 @ 8:38 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -68.3391 West, latitude 17.8795 North, depth = 100 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana, San Rafael del Yuma. The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 62 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.
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