A minor earthquake magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The 3.08-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:48:23 / 1:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/12/18 / 2018-12-09 18:48:23 / December 9, 2018 @ 6:48 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018343005. Id of event: pr2018343005. Exact location, longitude -68.1718° West, latitude 18.0025° North, depth = 61 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 61 km (38 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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