A minor earthquake magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/11/18 / 2018-11-27 01:19:42 / November 27, 2018 @ 1:19 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -68.2378° West, latitude 18.0471° North, depth = 78 km. The temblor was detected at 20:19:42 / 8:19 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018331000. Unique identifier: pr2018331000. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 78 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Event epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana.
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.
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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: 53 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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