A minor earthquake magnitude 3.71 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Unique identifier: pr2024186000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2024186000. Global time and date of event 04/07/24 / 2024-07-04 07:24:07 / July 4, 2024 @ 7:24 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -68.5393° West, latitude 18.2636° North, depth = 152 km. The 3.71-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:24:07 / 7:24 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 152 km (94 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Pedro de Macorís, Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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