A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018334003. Unique identifier: pr2018334003. Global time and date of event 30/11/18 / 2018-11-30 06:20:54 / November 30, 2018 @ 6:20 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -68.6915° West, latitude 19.3311° North, depth = 94 km. The temblor was detected at 01:20:54 / 1:20 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 94 km (58 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salvaleón de Higüey, Sabana de La Mar, Otra Banda. Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (49 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop). 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 twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 53 km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic.
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