A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of earthquake, -68.2043° West, 18.9278° North, depth 73 km. Unique identifier: pr2018293008. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018293008. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/10/18 / 2018-10-20 16:31:21 / October 20, 2018 @ 4:31 pm. The temblor was picked up at 11:31:21 / 11:31 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 73 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface.
The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Rafael del Yuma, Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 43 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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