A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude -67.9459° West, latitude 19.1352° North, depth = 8 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Event id: pr15202006. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15202006. The temblor was picked up at 00:34:51 / 12:34 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/07/15 / 2015-07-21 05:34:51 / July 21, 2015 @ 5:34 am UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fifty-eight, in the past 30 days sixty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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