A minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) strikes Dominican Republic region kilometers (0 miles) from Dominican Republic region on Wednesday. Unique identifier: pr2018283007. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018283007. Exact location of earthquake, -68.253° West, 17.9565° North, depth 82 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 82 km (51 miles). Global time and date of event 10/10/18 / 2018-10-10 21:26:19 / October 10, 2018 @ 9:26 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 21:26:19 / 9:26 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana, San Rafael del Yuma.
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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