A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 19:26:42 / 7:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/11/15 / 2015-11-05 00:26:42 / November 5, 2015 @ 12:26 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.9383 West, latitude 19.0368 North, depth = 25 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15309000. Unique identifier: pr15309000.
Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana.
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 70 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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