A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Boca de Yuma in Dominican Republic. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018280012. Unique identifier: pr2018280012. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/10/18 / 2018-10-07 08:50:23 / October 7, 2018 @ 8:50 am. Exact location of event, longitude -68.418 West, latitude 18.0736 North, depth = 115 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 115 km (71 miles). The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:50:23 / 3:50 am (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Romana, Otra Banda, Salvaleón de Higüey (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. 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: 39 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic.
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