A minor earthquake magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) strikes 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.1556 West, latitude 18.0965 North, depth = 91 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 91 km (57 miles). Unique identifier: pr2019035008. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019035008. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/02/19 / 2019-02-04 11:53:22 / February 4, 2019 @ 11:53 am. The temblor was reported at 06:53:22 / 6:53 am (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana. Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 57 km ESE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.
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