A minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 90 km (56 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/11/19 / 2019-11-20 09:13:25 / November 20, 2019 @ 9:13 am. The temblor was detected at 04:13:25 / 4:13 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019324009. Unique identifier: pr2019324009. Exact location of event, depth 90 km, -68.8061° West, 17.83° North.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Romana, San Rafael del Yuma. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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