A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.71 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -68.8169° West, 19.018° North, depth 4.71 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/03/20 / 2020-03-22 12:03:43 / March 22, 2020 @ 12:03 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008e13. Unique identifier: us70008e13. The temblor was reported at 08:03:43 / 8:03 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Romana, San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana. Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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