A minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The temblor was reported at 03:54:50 / 3:54 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018181007. Unique identifier: pr2018181007. Exact location of event, depth 95 km, -67.9965° West, 18.2731° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 95 km (59 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/06/18 / 2018-06-30 08:54:50 / June 30, 2018 @ 8:54 am UTC/GMT.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Yuma, Punta Cana. Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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