A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of event, longitude -67.9834 West, latitude 19.0454 North, depth = 30 km. Event id: pr15202003. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15202003. Global time and date of event 21/07/15 / 2015-07-21 03:16:09 / July 21, 2015 @ 3:16 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 22:16:09 / 10:16 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30 km (19 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana. Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fifty-eight, in the past 30 days sixty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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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: 67 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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