A minor earthquake magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic. Unique identifier: pr2019220000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019220000. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/08/19 / 2019-08-08 06:05:38 / August 8, 2019 @ 6:05 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 81 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.8786 West, latitude 19.2355 North, depth = 81 km. The 3.44-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:05:38 / 1:05 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sánchez, Guaymate, Salvaleón de Higüey. Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Sabana de La Mar (c. 14 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Samaná (c. 11 400 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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: 33 km NNE of Miches, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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