A minor earthquake magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The temblor was detected at 06:55:58 / 6:55 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/10/18 / 2018-10-01 11:55:58 / October 1, 2018 @ 11:55 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2018274009. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018274009. Exact location of earthquake, -68.034° West, 18.0228° North, depth 66 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 66 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Epicenter of the event was 73 km (46 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana. 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 72 km ESE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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