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Two 5.0 and 3.4 degrees tremors rocked last night and this morning at RD
posted on: Jan 19 2012 10:32 by RDugey. Viewed 28 times.
The Dominican Republic felt the effects of two earthquakes that occurred this morning, and lands whose movements were perceived in almost all the country.
According to the information of the Institute of Seismology of the University autonomous of Santo Domingo (UASD), the first tremor was felt last night at 11: 36 minutes and had a magnitude of 3.4 on the Richter scale and the other occurred at 2: 28 am on magnitude 5 grades.
Of 3.4 was felt in all the Cibao, mainly in Mao, hope and cities nearby.
While the five grades had its epicentre in the Mona and felt throughout the eastern part of the Capital and the South.
The engineer Juan Arias, of the Institute of seismology, explained the prensadiario.com strong tremor was felt in San Cristóbal, Bonao, in San Francisco de Macoris and areas nearby.
Explained that it was an earthquake of 100 km of u000adepth and who have reported two replicas of one degree, one at 5: 05 in the morning and one at 5: 45 pm
No reported damage up to the moment.
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Arias advised the population that not be alarmed, pointing out that Dominican Republic is a very seismic zone. He called on people to not carry rumors from people who say that an earthquake or a tsunami. comes
"Alone should be the information given by the relevant bodies such as the center of emergency operations (COE) and the seismological Institute", said.
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