A minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic. Exact location of earthquake, -68.4656° West, 19.244° North, depth 42 km. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:16:42 / 9:16 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 42 km (26 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/07/18 / 2018-07-27 02:16:42 / July 27, 2018 @ 2:16 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018208000. Id of event: pr2018208000.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salvaleón de Higüey, Punta Cana, Otra Banda. The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.
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