A 5.3 Magnitude Tremor Shakes Dominican Republic






The USGS said the tremor was a 5.0.

SANTO DOMINGO. - A 5.3 magnitude tremor shook Dominican Republic at 9:37 a.m. Wednesday, the Santo Domingo State University’s UASD Seismology Institute reports.


The slight quake panicked mostly those who live or work in the taller buildings in Santo Domingo, but didn’t lead to evacuation in the Acropolis Center, whose 22 stories makes it one of the city’s highest.


The quake comes just two days after a group of University of Columbia experts warned that the country is at risk of undergoing a similar event as that which devastated Haiti last year.
DomToday



Well now we are beginning to be very nervous, as this is where we live and we have had a few "shakes" since the nightmare of Haiti. We are on the same Island. The Dominican people have been warning about this, and that bigger ones are going to follow.

They are usually right.


For example, they can warn you in the morning that there is going to be a big storm "tonight", even when the sky is clear and it is a sunny day,,,,,, and we usually have a tropical storm the same night.


Not good,,,,,at all