A minor earthquake magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Global time and date of event 28/03/19 / 2019-03-28 05:36:51 / March 28, 2019 @ 5:36 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2019087003. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019087003. The 3.33-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:36:51 / 12:36 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 73 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -68.3223 West, latitude 17.9833 North, depth = 73 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salvaleón de Higüey, Punta Cana, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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