A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 100 km (62 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -67.8517 West, latitude 18.9195 North, depth = 100 km. Id of earthquake: pr15197022. Event ids that are associated: pr15197022. The temblor was picked up at 13:25:08 / 1:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/07/15 / 2015-07-16 18:25:08 / July 16, 2015 @ 6:25 pm UTC/GMT.
Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 69 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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