A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Unique identifier: us1000irxd. Ids that are associated to the event: pt19030050, us1000irxd. The temblor was picked up at 00:04:33 / 12:04 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.0483 West, latitude 19.2212 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 30/01/19 / 2019-01-30 05:04:33 / January 30, 2019 @ 5:04 am UTC/GMT.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana. Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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