A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Global time and date of event 25/12/18 / 2018-12-25 04:16:55 / December 25, 2018 @ 4:16 am UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:16:55 / 11:16 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2018359005. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018359005. The epicenter was at a depth of 75 km (47 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -68.5838 West, latitude 17.8391 North, depth = 75 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Romana, San Rafael del Yuma. Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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