A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic. Exact location of event, longitude -68.9875 West, latitude 19.1244 North, depth = 5.766 km. Unique identifier: us7000mssv. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mssv. The temblor was detected at 11:12:46 / 11:12 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.766 km (4 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/06/24 / 2024-06-16 11:12:46 / June 16, 2024 @ 11:12 am.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sánchez, Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km NNE of Miches, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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