A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The temblor was reported at 00:24:37 / 12:24 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 30/01/19 / 2019-01-30 05:24:37 / January 30, 2019 @ 5:24 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us1000irxl. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000irxl. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -68.0673° West, 19.2498° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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