A minor earthquake magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Otra Banda in Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 109 km (68 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/02/19 / 2019-02-17 05:36:08 / February 17, 2019 @ 5:36 am. The temblor was reported at 00:36:08 / 12:36 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2019048003. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019048003. Exact location of event, longitude -68.4358 West, latitude 19.0035 North, depth = 109 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guaymate, Santa Cruz de El Seibo, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Miches (c. 9 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 fourteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 45 km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic.
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