A minor earthquake magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. The temblor was picked up at 05:26:06 / 5:26 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/01/25 / 2025-01-02 05:26:06 / January 2, 2025 @ 5:26 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.77 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 50.77 km, -68.076° West, 17.932833333333° North. All ids that are associated to the event: pr71469963. Unique identifier: pr71469963.
Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 74 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.
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