A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) strikes 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 52 km, -68.2265° West, 19.1376° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019031018. Id of event: pr2019031018. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/01/19 / 2019-01-31 09:48:38 / January 31, 2019 @ 9:48 am. The temblor was picked up at 04:48:38 / 4:48 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 52 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda, Punta Cana. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days seventy-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 64 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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