A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from San Pedro de Macoris in Dominican Republic. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 07:40:13 / 7:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/05/19 / 2019-05-02 12:40:13 / May 2, 2019 @ 12:40 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19122051, us70003fnt. Id of event: us70003fnt. Exact location of earthquake, -69.2961° West, 18.0149° North, depth 10 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Gregorio de Nigua, Santo Domingo Oeste, Salvaleón de Higüey. Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Santo Domingo (c. 2 201 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Santo Domingo Oeste (c. 701 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Bella Vista (c. 175 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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