A minor earthquake magnitude 3.34 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019256001. Id of event: pr2019256001. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/09/19 / 2019-09-13 04:00:22 / September 13, 2019 @ 4:00 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 133 km (83 miles). The temblor was detected at 23:00:22 / 11:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.2131 West, latitude 18.1358 North, depth = 133 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda, San Rafael del Yuma. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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