A minor earthquake magnitude 3.46 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/02/18 / 2018-02-07 04:46:45 / February 7, 2018 @ 4:46 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 77 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.4841 West, latitude 17.9191 North, depth = 77 km. Event id: pr2018038002. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018038002. The temblor was picked up at 23:46:45 / 11:46 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Otra Banda, Salvaleón de Higüey, La Romana. Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 52 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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