A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of event, depth 28 km, -68.0518° West, 19.1245° North. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15205002. Unique identifier: pr15205002. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:04:07 / 2:04 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 24/07/15 / 2015-07-24 07:04:07 / July 24, 2015 @ 7:04 am UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days sixty, in the past 30 days sixty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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