A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The epicenter was at a depth of 50 km (31 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/07/15 / 2015-07-15 13:00:03 / July 15, 2015 @ 1:00 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.7817 West, latitude 19.1625 North, depth = 50 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:00:03 / 8:00 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: pr15196001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15196001.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana. Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 91 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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