Santo Domingo.- After an earthquake of magnitude 5.3 was felt this Wednesday, preliminary information from the National Seismology Center reported that no loss of human life has been recorded.
Likewise, the Emergency Operations Center (COE) reported that a rapid action plan has been activated to avoid any abnormality and verify the physical conditions of the country.
The earthquake that shook a large part of the country, passed 7:15 in the morning this Wednesday, with a latitude of 18.131 and longitude -70.442, about 36.4 kilometers southeast of the Calderas.
Information from official agencies details that in the Caribbean Sea the magnitude of the shock was about 5.3 on the Richter scale at a depth of 48 kilometers.
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The authorities await responses from the Emergency Operations Center (COE) to verify the places where the tremor was felt and at the same time they keep studying the event to offer more details.
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The regional fault which caused the earthquake of 5.3 degrees that astonished the entire population this Wednesday, Osiris de León explained that it is the same fault on January 12, 2010 that induced the 7.0 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; on January 6, 2020, the 6.4 earthquake in Puerto Rico, and on August 14, 2021, the 7.2 earthquake in Les Cayes, also in Haiti
According to the explanation of the National Seismology Center of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, the earthquake only lasted about 30 seconds.
The earthquake expert, Andrés Moreta, revealed that these cases are normal because “there is a geological fault system on the island”, so in similar situations, it is best to remain calm.
