A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Unique identifier: pr2018308002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018308002. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -68.2985 West, latitude 19.283 North, depth = 26 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/11/18 / 2018-11-04 02:40:32 / November 4, 2018 @ 2:40 am. The 3.12-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:40:32 / 9:40 pm (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Otra Banda, Punta Cana (min 5000 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 one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and one 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: 78 km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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