A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was reported 97 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic (60 miles) on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/02/19 / 2019-02-28 05:56:19 / February 28, 2019 @ 5:56 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -68.384° West, latitude 17.5271° North, depth = 63 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 63 km (39 miles). The 2.87-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:56:19 / 12:56 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019059006. Unique identifier: pr2019059006.
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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