A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 92 km (57 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/07/16 / 2016-07-16 00:42:21 / July 16, 2016 @ 12:42 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16198000. Unique identifier: pr16198000. Exact location of event, depth 92 km, -67.9229° West, 18.5079° North. The temblor was detected at 19:42:21 / 7:42 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Rafael del Yuma, Otra Banda, Aguada. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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