A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Unique identifier: pr15270000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15270000. Exact location of event, depth 62 km, -67.7695° West, 18.9461° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/09/15 / 2015-09-27 00:17:37 / September 27, 2015 @ 12:17 am. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:17:37 / 7:17 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 62 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana. Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (49 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 78 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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