A minor earthquake magnitude 3.26 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Exact location of event, depth 115 km, -68.1205° West, 18.0306° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 115 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/10/18 / 2018-10-19 04:46:41 / October 19, 2018 @ 4:46 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 23:46:41 / 11:46 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018292007. Unique identifier: pr2018292007.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 64 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.
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