A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was reported 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.8153 West, latitude 18.9891 North, depth = 50 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/01/19 / 2019-01-31 02:58:25 / January 31, 2019 @ 2:58 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 50 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr2019031005. Event ids that are associated: pr2019031005. The temblor was detected at 21:58:25 / 9:58 pm (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana. Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days seventy-two and in the last 365 days five hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 76 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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