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5.3 degree earthquake wakes up the Dominican Republic
posted on: Jan 5 2012 10:32 by The Reporter. Viewed 430 times.
A strong earth tremor woke up Dominicans today at dawn, some of whom took to the streets in nightwear frightened by the strong movements.
The tremor measured at 5.3 on the Richter scale according to the United States Seismological Center report occurred in the southern part of country, 10 kilometers deep, and at a distance of 55 km from Santo Domingo and 75km from Barahona. The epicenter was at latitude 18.3, longitude 70.5, specifically about 20 kilometers from Bahía de Ocoa.
The tremor shook walls of houses and buildings at 5:35am in the morning. Reports of the tremor were received in Villa Altagracia, Santiago, El Seibo, Baní and Azua, as well as other towns, that in principle, seems to indicate that the tremor was felt throughout the country.
At around six in the morning in some corners of the Capital you could even see some small groups of neighbors conversing outside in nightwear.
The Directorr of the Emergency Operations Center (COE), General Juan Manuel Méndez, called for people to be calm and said there is no warning of a tsunami.
He explained that the specialized seismic events unit was activated and that they had no reports of damage, although they would begin to do assessments during the day.
He said that due to the intensity of the tremor there may have occurred some type of cracking, but they had no reports as yet.
Since the event occurred, people began to report it through social networks, especially in the provinces of Ocoa and Baní where the tremor was felt most intensively.
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