Moderate tremor shakes Dominican southeast region

Jan 5th, 2009 | Posted by Mike | Filed under Other

Santo Domingo.– A 4.3 degree tremor on the Richter scale shook the Southeast region Saturday morning, when residents of the towns La Romana, El Seybo and San Pedro de Macoris said they felt it.

According to experts from the State University UASD Seismological Institute, so far there are no reports of damages from the 10:56 a.m. quake.

The tremor of depth 90 km had its epicenter located at 13 km from La Romana, 27 km from El Seybo, 28 km from Consuelo and 96 km from Santo Domingo.

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