A minor earthquake magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The temblor was picked up at 04:05:22 / 4:05 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 130 km, -68.5356° West, 17.8401° North. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018249007. Unique identifier: pr2018249007. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/09/18 / 2018-09-06 09:05:22 / September 6, 2018 @ 9:05 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 130 km (81 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Romana, San Rafael del Yuma. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 60 km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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