A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/08/19 / 2019-08-10 06:02:29 / August 10, 2019 @ 6:02 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 61 km (38 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -68.0443° West, 18.0251° North, depth 61 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019222003. Id of event: pr2019222003. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:02:29 / 1:02 am (local time epicenter).
The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 71 km ESE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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