A minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) strikes 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude -67.8618° West, latitude 18.429° North, depth = 139 km. The temblor was reported at 00:19:08 / 12:19 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 139 km (86 miles). Global time and date of event 16/01/19 / 2019-01-16 05:19:08 / January 16, 2019 @ 5:19 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pr2019016005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019016005.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Añasco, Aguadilla, Aguada (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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