A minor earthquake magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 122 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic (76 miles). Exact location, longitude -68.3718° West, latitude 17.2985° North, depth = 28 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019360022. Id of event: pr2019360022. The temblor was reported at 16:47:52 / 4:47 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 28 km (17 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/12/19 / 2019-12-26 21:47:52 / December 26, 2019 @ 9:47 pm.
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 122 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.
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