A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from La Romana in Dominican Republic. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 118 km (73 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -68.8325 West, latitude 18.4561 North, depth = 118 km. The 3.38-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:55:32 / 3:55 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019001006. Unique identifier: pr2019001006. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/01/19 / 2019-01-01 19:55:32 / January 1, 2019 @ 7:55 pm UTC/GMT.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Valle, Boca Chica, Los Llanos (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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