A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from La Plaine in Dominica. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.76 km (15 miles). Global time and date of event 28/02/19 / 2019-02-28 17:37:52 / February 28, 2019 @ 5:37 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -61.2167 West, latitude 15.3697 North, depth = 23.76 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000j95u. Id of event: us1000j95u. The temblor was detected at 13:37:52 / 1:37 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Trinité, Petite Rivière Salée, Sainte-Marie (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominica (c. 73 000 pop), Martinique (c. 433 000 pop). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Sainte-Marie (c. 20 400 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Roseau (c. 16 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Petite Rivière Salée (c. 15 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from La Trinité (c. 15 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Le Lorrain (c. 8 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km NE of La Plaine, Dominica. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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