A minor earthquake magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guaymate in Dominican Republic. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 122 km (76 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -68.942 West, latitude 18.5563 North, depth = 122 km. Global time and date of event 03/05/19 / 2019-05-03 10:08:38 / May 3, 2019 @ 10:08 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019123002. Id of event: pr2019123002. The temblor was detected at 06:08:38 / 6:08 am (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Boca Chica (c. 46 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bayaguana, Sabana de La Mar, Boca Chica (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 5 km SE of Guaymate, Dominican Republic.
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