A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/09/15 / 2015-09-27 13:34:31 / September 27, 2015 @ 1:34 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15270034. Unique identifier: pr15270034. The temblor was picked up at 08:34:31 / 8:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.7904 West, latitude 18.9055 North, depth = 23 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.
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