A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/08/16 / 2016-08-06 01:26:58 / August 6, 2016 @ 1:26 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16219000. Id of event: pr16219000. The epicenter was at a depth of 82 km (51 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.0353 West, latitude 18.118 North, depth = 82 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:26:58 / 8:26 pm (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days two hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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