A minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 17:39:20 / 5:39 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2019050016. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019050016. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.4138 West, latitude 18.0995 North, depth = 64 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/02/19 / 2019-02-19 22:39:20 / February 19, 2019 @ 10:39 pm UTC/GMT.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Romana, Otra Banda, Salvaleón de Higüey. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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