A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. All ids that are associated to the event: pr17016008. Unique identifier: pr17016008. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 87 km (54 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/01/17 / 2017-01-16 09:07:10 / January 16, 2017 @ 9:07 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 04:07:10 / 4:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.0891 West, latitude 18.7919 North, depth = 87 km.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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